Pydna
Americannoun
noun
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When he made alliances with Balkan tribes that threatened to invade Italy, Roman armies invaded Macedon and defeated his army at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BCE.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
After the victory at Pydna, the sympathy shown in Greece for the conquered monarch made the Romans more watchful of her interests there.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Pennell, Robert Franklin
The Battle of Pydna, which placed the Macedonian monarchy in the hands of the Romans, was decided by a panic befalling the Macedonian cavalry after the phalanx had been broken.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various
For several campaigns the management of the Roman generals was ill-judged; but at last L. Æmilius Paulus, son of the consul who fell at Cannæ, routed the Macedonians at the battle of Pydna.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
Pydna he secured in 357 by trickery; Amphipolis had passed under his control through inexcusable Athenian slackness earlier in the same year.
From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.
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