Capitolo 16
Macedon was as tall and honorable, and the attentions that he received
it was as great, as he was been able to wait for to enjoy if he had been in
reality a child of the king. As he grew, he reached to official
stations of the considerable responsibility and the power.
During time, a certain operation happened from he/she wants to say, of what
Ptolemy got involved in serious difficulty with Phillip, although from
the same means him it very strongly made of Alexander his/her friend. There was a
province of the empire Persian call Decays, it placed in the
southwestern part of Smaller Asia. The governor of this province had
proposed his/her daughter to Phillip as the wife of one of his/her children called
Aridaeus, the half brother of Alexander. The mother of Alexander that was not
the mother of Aridaeus, was jealous of this you/he/she proposed marriage. You
thought that it belonged to a scheme to bring Aridaeus sends in
I tell public, and finally manufacturing him the heir to the throne of Phillip;
while she was a lot of deposit that this splendid inheritance should be
reserved for his really child. Accordingly, she proposed to Alexander that
they should send a secret embassage to the Persian governor, and
you represent to him that very both would be best for him and for his
daughter, that she should have Alexander instead of Aridaeus for a
husband, and it incites him, if possible, to ask for Phillip that he owes
makes the change.
Alexander quickly entered this scheme and the various courtiers,
Ptolemy among the rest, undertaken to help him/it in the completion of
it. The embassy was expeditious. The governor of it Decays it was settled a lot
with the change that they proposed to him. In fact, the whole plan
it seemed you/they were following a lot with success toward his/her completion, when,
from of the means or other, Phillip discovered the intrigue. He went
immediately in the apartment of Alexander, extremely excited with resentment
and anger. He had never intended to make Aridaeus which the birth on the
the side of mother was dark and ignoble, the heir to its throne and him