The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests ...including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts, Volumen1,Parte2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... Army . Revolt of the Assyrian Provinces.- Nineveh demolished by Cyaxares and Nebopolassar.- Babylon the new Capital of Assyria.- Jealousy of Necos King of Egypt . He gains the Battle of Megiddo . — Invades Mesopotamia , and garrisons ...
... Army . Revolt of the Assyrian Provinces.- Nineveh demolished by Cyaxares and Nebopolassar.- Babylon the new Capital of Assyria.- Jealousy of Necos King of Egypt . He gains the Battle of Megiddo . — Invades Mesopotamia , and garrisons ...
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... army of thirty thousand foot and five thousand horse 12 , which he originally conducted across the Hel- lespont ; and the success of his arms in Asia speedily procured for him most powerful aux- iliaries in that quarter . The western ...
... army of thirty thousand foot and five thousand horse 12 , which he originally conducted across the Hel- lespont ; and the success of his arms in Asia speedily procured for him most powerful aux- iliaries in that quarter . The western ...
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... army , therefore , continually swelled with the progress of his expedition eastward ; and the division which he personally conducted , was never more numerous than in the modern province of Lahore , and on the farther bank of the Hypha ...
... army , therefore , continually swelled with the progress of his expedition eastward ; and the division which he personally conducted , was never more numerous than in the modern province of Lahore , and on the farther bank of the Hypha ...
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... army , to make the river fordable : and the sooner to gain his end , might mark out a vast number of channels . See Rennell's Geography of Herodotus , p . 202. Cæsar performed a similar operation on the river Sicoris in Spain . Cæsar de ...
... army , to make the river fordable : and the sooner to gain his end , might mark out a vast number of channels . See Rennell's Geography of Herodotus , p . 202. Cæsar performed a similar operation on the river Sicoris in Spain . Cæsar de ...
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... army fifty thousand strong , spent the last scenes of his life in Babylonia , which he had chosen for the seat of an empire , of which it formed locally the centre , since at an intermediate , and nearly equal distance from its four ...
... army fifty thousand strong , spent the last scenes of his life in Babylonia , which he had chosen for the seat of an empire , of which it formed locally the centre , since at an intermediate , and nearly equal distance from its four ...
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Africa Alexander Alexander's ancient Anti Antigonus Antipater antiquity apud Arabia Argyraspides Aristot arms army Arrhidæus Arrian arts Asander Asiatic Assyrian Athenians Babylon Babylonian Bactra battle called capital Cassander cavalry centuries Chaldæans CHAP chiefly Christian æra coast command commerce Conf conqueror conquests Craterus Curtius Cyrené death Demetrius desert Diodorus district division dominion East eastern Egypt Egyptians empire enemy Ethiopia Eumenes Euphrates Euridicé expedition fleet formed Grecian Greece Greeks Herodot historians horse hundred ibid Indus infantry inhabitants king kingdom Leonnatus Lesser Asia Macedon Macedonian master Medes Media ment Meroë miles mountains nations neighbouring Nile Nineveh Ninus Olymp peninsula Perdiccas Peucestes Phocion Phoenicians Phrygia Plutarch Plutarch in Eumen Polysperchon priests prince provinces Ptolemy Python reign river royal satrap Scythians SECT Seleucus Strabo success Syria temple Thebes thousand Tigris tion transactions troops Tyre ubi supra vast victory Xenoph xviii
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Página 73 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Página 177 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 89 - The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
Página 113 - And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
Página 225 - affirmed that, in sailing round Africa, they had the sun on their right hand, which to me appears not to be credible, though it may be deemed so by others.
Página 105 - Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Página 236 - The king spake and said — is not this great Babylon which I have built? for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty.
Página 188 - He shall recount his worthies : they shall stumble in their walk ; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Página 240 - They facilitated the intercourse of peace and commerce, and, as the dams could be speedily broke down, they armed the despair of the Assyrians with the means of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army. To the soil and climate of Assyria nature had denied some of her choicest gifts — the vine, the olive, and the fig-tree...
Página 241 - Its precious manufactures under its hereditary sacerdotal government remounted, as we have seen, to immemorial antiquity. The Babylonians continued thenceforward to be clothed with the produce of their own industry. Their bodies were covered with fine linen, descending to their feet : their mitras or turbans were also of linen, plaited with much art ; they wore woollen tunicks, above which a short white cloak repelled the rays of the sun.