The Balkan situation was far from secure, with the Odrysians and Scythians only recently defeated and with the Triballi still defiant. Yet Philip was confident of success in the interest of the Greek-speaking world and of Macedonia in particular.
N.G.L. Hammond
Philip was born a Greek of the most aristocratic, indeed of divine, descent.. Philip was both a Greek and a Macedonian, even as Demosthenes was a Greek and an Athenian.. The Macedonians over whom Philip was to rule were an outlying family member of the Greek-speaking peoples.
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All in all, the language of the Macedones was a distinct and particular form of Greek, resistant to outside influnces and conservative in pronunciation. It remained so until the fourth century when it was almost totally submerged by the flood tide of standardized Greek.
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