The armies which returned from the macedonian wars, and still more from that with Antiochus, brought with them new fashions and new appliances of luxury.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
As he felt, however, that there was something ludicrous in the idea and as he doubted whether his father would permit him to play the role of the macedonian Alexander in Africa, he did not confide his plans to Nell, who certainly would be the only person in the world ready to applaud them.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The macedonian conquest of Hither Asia was a victory won by men of Greek civilization, but only to a very partial extent a victory of that civilization.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth