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Demetrius I of Macedon

Demetrius

also: Demetrius Poliorcetes, Demetrius the Besieger, Demetrium

Hellenistic king of Macedon (337-283 BC), son of Antigonus the One-Eyed, surnamed Poliorcetes ("the Besieger"). Cicero cites the Macedonians' mass desertion of him for Pyrrhus as proof that fear cannot hold power.

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