An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volumen9T. Osborne, 1747 |
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... Asia , paffed by Ariarathes king of Cappadocia , and never had time afterwards to reduce him . This prince knowing well that it would one time or other fall to his lot to fight for the king- dom of his ancestors , made use of that ...
... Asia , paffed by Ariarathes king of Cappadocia , and never had time afterwards to reduce him . This prince knowing well that it would one time or other fall to his lot to fight for the king- dom of his ancestors , made use of that ...
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... Asia . all , refolving to make himself lord of Afia . He had now an army of fixty thousand foot , and nineteen thoufand horse , many elephants , and treafure in abundance . He began there- fore to make no fecret of his defigns , but to ...
... Asia . all , refolving to make himself lord of Afia . He had now an army of fixty thousand foot , and nineteen thoufand horse , many elephants , and treafure in abundance . He began there- fore to make no fecret of his defigns , but to ...
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... Asia , and Afric . Na tural timidity , and the confciouf- nefs of a long scene of crimes , rendered Perfes unable to ma- nage fo great a controverfy a- gainst fo potent and fo firm an enemy as the Romans . His own fenfe of his ...
... Asia , and Afric . Na tural timidity , and the confciouf- nefs of a long scene of crimes , rendered Perfes unable to ma- nage fo great a controverfy a- gainst fo potent and fo firm an enemy as the Romans . His own fenfe of his ...
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... Asia Minor , A reak prince . O JUSTIN . 1. xxvii . c . 3 . ans with great folemnity , as be . ing , in their opinion , the first day of their liberty ; whereas it was in reality the first of their flavery ; for the world never produced ...
... Asia Minor , A reak prince . O JUSTIN . 1. xxvii . c . 3 . ans with great folemnity , as be . ing , in their opinion , the first day of their liberty ; whereas it was in reality the first of their flavery ; for the world never produced ...
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... Asia . The games were celebrated with incredible pomp and magnificence , and were by far the fineft that had ever been in Syria ( 1 ) . SCARCE ling - waters to fprinkle the fpec- tators . The proceffion was clof- ed by fourfcore women ...
... Asia . The games were celebrated with incredible pomp and magnificence , and were by far the fineft that had ever been in Syria ( 1 ) . SCARCE ling - waters to fprinkle the fpec- tators . The proceffion was clof- ed by fourfcore women ...
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affiftance Afia againſt Alexander Alexander Balas Alexandria alfo anfwer Antigonus Antiochus Antipater Antony APPIAN Armenia army battle becauſe Bithynia brother Cæfar Caffander Cappadocia caufed cauſed Cilicia Cleopatra command confiderable Craterus crown death defign defired Demetrius DIODOR dominions Egypt embaffadors enemy Eumenes faid fame fays fecond feemed feized felf fenate fent fettled feveral fhall fhew fhips fhould fide fiege fifter fince firft fleet foldiers fome foon forces ftill fubjects fuccefs fuch fuffered Greece hiftory himſelf horfe ibid intereft JUSTIN king's kingdom laft Lucullus Lyfimachus Macedon Macedonians mafter marched Mithridates moft moſt obferved occafion paffed Parthians Perdiccas Perfes perfon Philip Phyfcon PLUT Plutarch poffeffion POLYB Polybius Pompey Pontus prefent prifoner prince promifing provinces Ptolemy raiſed refolved reft reign Romans Rome Seleucus SICUL STRAB Sylla Syria thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand throne Tigranes troops ubi fupra uſed victory whofe
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Página 185 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Página 333 - ... promised, sent Athenobius, one of his friends, to him, to demand the restoration of Gazara, Joppa, and the fortress of Jerusalem, with several other places then held by Simon, which he claimed as belonging to the kingdom of Syria, or else five hundred talents in lieu of them, and five hundred talents more for the damages that were done by the Jews within the borders of his other dominions. On f Athenobius...
Página 401 - Pursuant to this resolution, he commanded all the Jews who lived in any part of Egypt to be brought in chains to Alexandria, and there to be shut up in the hippodrome, which was a very spacious place without the city, where the people used to assemble to see horse races and other public shows.
Página 373 - Egypt by the Greeks, or other foreigners. The books were transcribed in the museum by persons appointed for that purpose; the copies were then delivered to the proprietors, and the originals laid up in the library- Ptolemy Euergetes...
Página 209 - ... views of his own which he had therein, overbore all opposition to it, and prevailed with the king to send another general with more forces into the east, and proceed himself in his former intended expedition into CoeleSyria. The general sent into the east was...
Página 567 - Murxna to forbear molefting a friend and ally of the Roman people ; but afterwards, calling him afide, he had a private conference with him, in which it is fuppofed...
Página 602 - ... to the army according to the "' cuftom of the camp ; but ordered thofe who were by him to form a kind of mount with their...
Página 591 - Rome, where he was received by the fenate with great marks of efteem, moft men thinking him highly injured by the authors of the Manilian law. Pompey purfued his march into Pontus ; but finding that he could not by any means draw the king -to a battle, he marched back into Armenia Minor, with a deiign either to reduce that province, or oblige Mithridates to venture a battle in order to relieve it.
Página 373 - Cleopatra deposited those 200,000 volumes from that of Pergamus, which were presented to her by Antony. This addition, with other enlargements that were made from time to time, rendered the new library of Alexandria more numerous and considerable than the first : and though it was ransacked more than once, during the troubles and revolutions which happened in the Roman empire, it always retrieved its losses, and recovered its number of volumes. In this condition it subsisted for many ages...
Página 223 - The high-,prieft informed him of the holinefs of the place; and the exprefs law of God, by which he was forbid to enter it. The priefts and Levites drew together in a body to oppofe his rafh dcfign, which the people alfo.