Philip treated the child with the same consideration and favor that he had evinced toward the mother.

The boy was called the son of Lagus, but his position in the royal court of Macedon was as high and honorable, and the attentions which he received were as great, as he could have expected to enjoy if he had been in reality a son of the king.

As he grew up, he attained to official stations of considerable responsibility and power.
In the course of time, a certain transaction occurred by means of which Ptolemy involved himself in serious difficulty with Philip, though by the same means he made Alexander very strongly his friend.

There was a province of the Persian empire called Caria, situated in the southwestern part of Asia Minor.

The governor of this province had offered his daughter to Philip as the wife of one of his sons named Aridaeus, the half brother of Alexander.