Onomastus of Macedon
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Onomastus of Macedon
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Onomastus was a confidential officer of Philip V of Macedon, for whom he held the government of the sea-coast of Thrace. Together with the general Cassander, Onomastus carried out the Massacre of Maroneia in 185 BC. Appius Claudius, and the other Roman commissioners, required that Philip should send Onomastus and Cassander to Rome to be examined about the massacre; whereupon the king despatched Cassander, and had him poisoned on the way, but persisted in declaring that Onomastus had not been in
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Antigonid general confidential officer of Philip V of Macedon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastus_of_Macedon
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2023-01-20T00:43:52Z
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