The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian: In Fifteen Books. To which are Added the Fragments of Diodorus, and Those Published by H. Valesius, I. Rhodomannus, and F. Ursinus, Volum 2W. MʻDowall, 1814 |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian: In Fifteen Books ..., Volum 2 Diodorus (Siculus.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian: In Fifteen Books ..., Volum 2 Diodorus (Siculus.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1814 |
The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian: In Fifteen Books ..., Volum 2 Diodorus (Siculus.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1814 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
affairs afterwards Agathocles Alcetas Alexander amongst antient Antigonus Antipater Argyraspides arms Asia assault assistance Athenians Athens barbarians battle besieged body Boeotians brought called camp Carthaginians Cassander castle chief Cilicia citizens command confederates consuls Craterus Darius darts death delivered Demetrius Dionysius drew Egypt encamped enemy enemy's engaged Epaminondas Eumenes fell fight five hundred fled fleet forces forthwith fought friends furlongs gained garrison gods governor Grecians Greece Greek hands Hicetas honour hundred horse inhabitants joined killed king king's kingdom Lacedæmonians length liberty likewise Lucius Lysimachus Macedonians marched mean mercenaries multitude night oracle ordered peace Peloponnesus Perdiccas Persians Philip Phocians Phoenicia Polyperchon presently prisoners promised provinces Ptolemy rest returned river Romans Rome routed sail senate sent ambassadors ships Sicily side siege soldiers Spartans Syracusans Syracuse temple Thebans thence Thessalians Thessaly things thousand foot thousand horse Timoleon took town tyrant valour victory walls whereupon whole army wounded
Populære avsnitt
Side 427 - He was empowered to fit out five hundred galleys, and to raise an army of a hundred and twenty thousand foot, and five thousand horse. Twenty-four senators were selected, who had all been generals or praetors, and were appointed his lieutenants ; and ' he had two quaestors given him. As the price of provisions fell immediately, the people were greatly pleased, and it gave them occasion to say...
Side 210 - ... no direct passage, but the coffins with the dead bodies are by instruments hoisted up and so let down into these vaults. In this citadel were many stately lodgings, both for the king and his soldiers, of excellent workmanship; and treasury chambers, most commodionsly contrived, for the laying up of money.
Side 209 - And they were so eager in plundering, that they fought one with another with drawn swords, and many who were conceived to have got a greater share than the rest, were killed in the quarrel. Some things that were of extraordinary value they divided with their swords, and each took a share. Others, in rage, cut off the hands of such as laid hold of a thing that was in dispute.
Side 209 - Persians, once famous all the world over, was now exposed to scorn and contempt, and rifled from top to bottom. For though every place was full of rich spoil, yet the covetousness of the Macedonians was insatiable, still thirsting after more. And they were so eager in plundering, that they fought one with another with drawn swords, and many who were conceived to have got agreater share than the rest, were killed in the quarrel.
Side 393 - ... also much longer and slower in sinking than when they are cast into other waters. And this profit and advantage the barbarians reap from it: they transport this pitch into Egypt, and there sell it, for the use of embalming the dead; for, if they do not mix this with other aromatic spices, the bodies cannot be preserved long from putrefaction.
Side 13 - Mago, their general, and one of the suffetes, lost a great battle, in which he was slain. The Carthaginian chiefs demanded a peace, which was granted on condition of their evacuating all Sicily, and defraying the expenses of the war. They pretended to accept the terms ; but representing that it was not in their power to deliver up the cities, without first obtaining an order from their republic, they obtained so long a truce, as gave them time sufficient for sending to Carthage.
Side 111 - Sidonians, by which the whole city and inhabitants were consumed to ashes, the king sold the rubbish, and relicts of the fire for many talents : for, the city being very rich, there was found a vast quantity of gold and silver melted down by the flames. Thus sad was the calamity under which the Sidonians suffered. The rest of the cities, being terrified with this destruction, ' presently surrendered themselves to the Persians. A little before this Artemisia, the princess of Caria, died, having governed...
Side 273 - And first, a coffin of beaten gold was provided, so wrought by the hammer, as to answer to the proportion of the body ; it was half filled with aromatic spices, which served as well to delight the sense, as to prevent the body from putrefaction.
Side 414 - Hercules, the tutelar god of their country, was angry at them, they sent a vast sum of money, and many other rich gifts, to Tyre. For, in as much as they were a Colony which originated from them, they used in former ages to send the tenth part of all their revenues as an offering to that god. But afterwards, when they had grown wealthy, and their revenues had greatly increased, they began to slack in their devotion, and sent thither but a small pittance to their god. Being therefore brought to repentance...
Side 127 - ... madness and rage, had her house set on fire by her eldest son, and she and her habitation consumed together. In this manner (as we said before) those that dared thus to despise and contemn the deity, were overtaken by divine vengeance. On the contrary, Philip, who appeared in defence of the oracle, ever prospering from that time, for his piety, was at last declared supreme governor of all Greece, and gained the largest kingdom in Europe. And now, having given an account of the Sacred War, so...