詞源macedonia+後綴n,中文意思是adj. 馬其頓的,n. 馬其頓人
Within his own lifetime, Aristotle would see Athens, sparta, and the other great cities of Greece swallowed up by the great Macedonian Empire to the north.在他有生之年,亞里士多德看到雅典、斯巴達和希臘的其他大城市被北方的馬其頓帝國吞併。