Philip, king of Macedon, who had so much to do with the people of Rome, agitated with the horror of so many murders committed by his order, and doubting of being able to keep himself secure from so many families, at divers times mortally injured and offended by him, resolved to seize all the children of those he had caused to be slain, to despatch them daily one after another, and so to establish his own repose.
Filipo Makedoniako erregek, jende erromatarrarekin hainbat hari-matazaren laxatzeko ukan zuenak, bere manuez egin hiltzeen izialdurak nahasirik, aro ezberdinetan laidostatu hainbat familien aurka ezin oldartuz, erabaki zuen hilarazi zituenen seme guztien hartzea, egunez egun hiltzeko eta horrela atsedenaren hartzeko.