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... Persian monarchy . The Difaffec- fuccefs of this well - concerted plan depended , in tion of the a great measure , on the powerful and ready Armenia . affistance of the king of Armenia , who , with- out exposing the safety of his own ...
... Persian monarchy . The Difaffec- fuccefs of this well - concerted plan depended , in tion of the a great measure , on the powerful and ready Armenia . affistance of the king of Armenia , who , with- out exposing the safety of his own ...
Side 168
... Persian fatrap , an Ariaba of filver each day . The well - known proportion of weights and measures ( see Bishop Hooper's elaborate Inquiry ) , the fpecific gravity of water and filver , and the value of that metal , will afford , after ...
... Persian fatrap , an Ariaba of filver each day . The well - known proportion of weights and measures ( see Bishop Hooper's elaborate Inquiry ) , the fpecific gravity of water and filver , and the value of that metal , will afford , after ...
Side 242
... Persia ; whilft he reserved for his imme- diate government the warlike præfectures of Illyricum , Italy , and Gaul , from the extremity of Greece to the Caledonian rampart ; and from the rampart of Caledonia , to the foot of Mount Atlas ...
... Persia ; whilft he reserved for his imme- diate government the warlike præfectures of Illyricum , Italy , and Gaul , from the extremity of Greece to the Caledonian rampart ; and from the rampart of Caledonia , to the foot of Mount Atlas ...
Side 247
... Persian prince escaped with honour and safety , and was afterwards ( A. D 380. ) restored to the fame extraordinary office of proconful of Bithynia ( Tillemont , Hift . des Empereurs , tom . v . p . 204. ) . I am ignorant whether the ...
... Persian prince escaped with honour and safety , and was afterwards ( A. D 380. ) restored to the fame extraordinary office of proconful of Bithynia ( Tillemont , Hift . des Empereurs , tom . v . p . 204. ) . I am ignorant whether the ...
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