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Book 37 - Chapter 1

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<head lang="la">Olymp. 158, 1. Bellum Macedonicum</head><w lemma="%2Amou%2Fseion">Μούσειον</w>, <w lemma="to%2Fpos">τόπος</w> <w lemma="peri%5C">περὶ</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="%2A%29%2Folumpon">Ὄλυμπον</w> <w lemma="to%5Cn">τὸν</w> <w lemma="e%29n">ἐν</w> <w lemma="%2Amakedoni%2Fa%7C:">Μακεδονίᾳ·</w> <w lemma="%2Apolu%2Fbios">Πολύβιος</w> <w lemma="triakostw%3D%7C">τριακοστῷ</w> <w lemma="e%28bdo%2Fmw%7C">ἑβδόμῳ</w>.
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<p rend="Plain Text">The <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Museum in Macedonia&groupId=775&placeId=1404">Museum in Macedonia</a></p>
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<p rend="Plain Text"> <emph rend="bold"><w lang="el-GR">Μούσειον</w>:</emph> this shrine is not mentioned elsewhere. Schweighaeuser suggests a connection with the monument to Orpheus near the town of Libethra on Olympus (Paus. ix. 30. 9; Strabo, ix. 2. 25, C. 410, x. 3. 17, C. 471) and this seems likely, since Strabo says that originally Thracians dedicated Leibethrum (Libethra) to the Muses. Leibethrum (cf. Meloni, Perseo, 300–1 n. 3) figures in the account of Q. Marcius Philippus' march over the shoulder of Olympus in 169 (Livy, xliv. 5. 12) and one would have expected a reference to it here to have some relevance to the campaign against Andriscus. </p> <p rend="Plain Text">There is no obvious context for such a reference in book xxxvii. The revolt of yet another pretender, Alexander (Zon. ix. 28), may belong to this year, for Metellus was involved; but his activities were near the Nestus, far from Olympus. However, one can hardly argue far concerning the contents of a lost book; nor can one exclude an error in the manuscript of Stephanus, with the possibility that the Museum was really mentioned in book xxxvi.</p> <p rend="Plain Text"> 〈See xxxviii. 7. 1–8. 15 n., 19 a n., and 19 n. for the possibility that the two latter passages, from Ammianus and Plut. Mor. 200 A might stand in book xxxvii. See pp. 46–47.〉 <milestone unit="page" n="684">[684]</milestone> </p>

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