Perdikkas III van Makedonië vermoor vir sy regent Ptolemaios van Aloros en word koning. Philippus wie as gyselaar in Thebe vasgehou is, keer na Makedonië terug. 'n Epidemie tref Rome. Een van die slagoffers is die nasionale held Marcus Furius Camillus. R. Lane Fox in: Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC - 300 AD, BRILL, 2011 ISBN 9004206507, ISBN 9789004206502, bls. 262 From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary Andrew G. Traver Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002 ISBN 0313309426, ISBN 9780313309427, bls. 80