The House of Seleucus, Volum 2E. Arnold, 1902 |
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Achaeus Aetolians akra Alexander Alexander Balas Alexandria alliance ally ambassadors Antiochus Epiphanes Antiochus III Apamea appeared Appendix Arch Arianus Ariarathes army Asia Minor Athens attack Attalus Babelon battle Bolis brother Cambylus Cappadocia Cilicia Cleopatra coast coins Cole-Syria command conquest course Cretan Cyzicenus Demetrius Diod dynasty East Egypt Egyptian elephants embassy Empire envoys Ephesus Euergetes Eumenes favour Flamininus fleet force friends garrison Greece Greek cities Grypos hand Hannibal Hasmonaean Hellenic Hellespont High-priest house of Seleucus Ibid Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jonathan Joseph Judaea Judas King's Laodice Lysias Macc Macedonian Magnesia Mithridates Niese Orophernes Parthian party Pergamene Pergamos Philip Phoenician Polyb Polybius Polyxenidas province Ptolemaïc Ptolemy Philometor Rhodes Rhodian Roman Rome royal seems Seleucid court Seleucid house Seleucid King Senate sent ships soon Soter Strabo strategos Syria Temple throne Timarchus took troops Tryphon xxxi xxxv xxxvii καὶ τῆς τοῦ τῶν
Passatges populars
Pàgina 153 - And king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people, and that each should forsake his own laws.
Pàgina 181 - Gentiles had defiled it : and they pulled down the altar, and laid up the stones in the mountain of the house in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to give an answer concerning them.
Pàgina 142 - And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
Pàgina 115 - And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.
Pàgina 293 - Seleucid battles. That would belong more properly to a study of the warfare of that age, and it is hoped that we shall soon have from Professor Oman something to throw a new light upon this domain. I should merely like to point out the persistence with which the tradition was adhered to — the brave folly — that the Kings themselves should fight in the thick of the battle. It was, of course, fatal to any proper direction of the battle, for the King had no idea what was going on in the rest of...
Pàgina 230 - And all Israel made great lamentation over him, and mourned for him many days. And Simon built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone behind and before.
Pàgina 291 - Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were moved: for the army was very great and mighty.
Pàgina 175 - ... utter self-devotion, a passionate clinging to purity. They were qualities for the lack of which all the riches of Hellenic culture could not compensate. It was an epoch in history. The agony created new human types, and new forms of literature, which became permanent, were inherited by Christendom.
Pàgina 174 - There shone out in that intense moment the sterner and sublimer qualities which later Hellenism, and above all the Hellenism of Syria, hardly knew — uncompromising fidelity to an ideal, endurance raised to the pitch of utter self-devotion, a passionate clinging to purity. They were qualities for the lack of which all the riches of Hellenic culture could not compensate. It was an epoch in history.
Pàgina 264 - Borne, and one of them was robbed of some of his choice plate by Verres when he stopped in Sicily on his way home The arms of Tigranes did not reach the south of Syria. Queen Selene was still residing in 69 in Ptolemais; but in the land as a whole the Arabs, the Ituraeans of Chalcis, and the Jews had it all their own way, except in so far as they fought with each other. Damascus soon after the death of Antiochus Dionysus (about 85) put itself into the hands of the Nabataean king Haretas III, to escape...