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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... . According to these data , and making ample allowance for contingencies , the expence of 30,000 foot and 5,000 horse needed not to exceed 900,000l . SECT . J. By an adherence to his pre - B 3 ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS . 5.
... . According to these data , and making ample allowance for contingencies , the expence of 30,000 foot and 5,000 horse needed not to exceed 900,000l . SECT . J. By an adherence to his pre - B 3 ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS . 5.
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... 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 division of the Persian empire , containing an ...
... 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 division of the Persian empire , containing an ...
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... horse , is said to have deprived of its dignity as a great river by dividing it into 360 artificial channels . 76 From Aturia it conducted to Sittacene the eastern ap- pendage of Babylonia , and from thence pro- ceeded through a rich ...
... horse , is said to have deprived of its dignity as a great river by dividing it into 360 artificial channels . 76 From Aturia it conducted to Sittacene the eastern ap- pendage of Babylonia , and from thence pro- ceeded through a rich ...
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... horse ; that is the full complement of the phalanx , attended with its essential 94 auxiliaries . On the three coasts of Lesser Asia , the generosity of Alexan- der had subdued the affections of the Greeks . In the interior of that ...
... horse ; that is the full complement of the phalanx , attended with its essential 94 auxiliaries . On the three coasts of Lesser Asia , the generosity of Alexan- der had subdued the affections of the Greeks . In the interior of that ...
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... horse and foot , known by the technical name of Companions ; a term of which , in the progress of this history , it will be material accurately to ascertain the import . At present , it is more necessary to remark , that by 95 Diodorus ...
... horse and foot , known by the technical name of Companions ; a term of which , in the progress of this history , it will be material accurately to ascertain the import . At present , it is more necessary to remark , that by 95 Diodorus ...
Términos y frases comunes
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.