OK. In my usual roundabout, weird way – I’ve finally reached the destination. Macedonia/Serbia

I’m feeling a great need now to look into the Ptolemaic Pharoahs via…..?!?

“We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.”

 

From NC:

The so-called “ancient Chinese history” contains many references to the nation of Qidani – the alleged descendants of the Syanbi, or the Serbs, qv above ([212], page 131). Furthermore, the Qidani are said to have been a South-Eastern Serbian tribe.

One can hardly get rid of the thought that the nation in question might identify as the Macedonians, the southern neighbours of the Serbs. The languages of the two nations are extremely similar, and the Macedonians were occasionally referred to as the Southern Serbs.

 

After that Macedonian king Philip (Filippo Re` de’Macedoni) married Gotile (co ~ Gothila), the daughter of the king of the Scythians. His son Alexander (Alessandro), having encountered their strength, made peace with them, as write Strabo (VII) and Arrian of Nicomedia (Arriano di Nicomedia) (IV), as well as Ottone Frisigese.

Quintus Curtius (Q.Curtio) refutes the opinion of the authors above. Darius (Dario), becoming the king of the Persians, took as his wife the daughter of the king of the Scythians Antiregira (Antriregiro). Until then, the Goths were called Scythians, as clearly show Dion, Scholastic Smirnsky, Agathia, Jordan (Dione, Scolastico Smirneo, Agathio, Giornardo) and others. But not because the Goths came from the Scythians, as think some Italian authors, but because, after expelling the Scythians, the Goths took possession of their kingdom.