The History of Egypt Under the PtolemiesEdward Moxon, 1838 - 220 sider |
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Side 116 - could throw stones of three hundred pounds weight, and arrows of eighteen feet in length. It had four anchors of wood, and eight of iron. It was called the ship of Syracuse, but after it had been given to Philopator it was known by the name of the ship of Alexandria.
Side 136 - the historian, to whom we owe so much of our knowledge of these reigns, although he had not yet reached the age called for by the Greek law, was sent by the Achaians as one of the ambassadors, with his father, to return thanks; but before they had quitted their own country they were
Side 200 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereids, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge, A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone.
Side 144 - there should be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Side 154 - were sent by the senate to see that the kingdom of their ally was peaceably settled. Euergetes went to meet him with great pomp, and received him with all the honours due to his rank, and the whole city followed him in crowds through the streets, eager to catch a sight of the
Side 177 - Alexander added the bribe which was then becoming common with the princes who held their thrones by the help of Rome : he made a will, in which he named the Roman people as his heirs ; and the senate then took care that the kingdom of Egypt should be a part of the wealth which was
Side 164 - the death of a sister; that Cleopatra was by marriage his sister as well as hers ; that she was the aunt of their children ; and that the gods would punish them if they dragged her from the altar. But Tryphaena was merciless and unmoved; she gave her own orders to the soldiers, and Cleopatra was killed
Side 47 - In that city no Egyptian could live without feeling himself of a conquered race: he was not admitted, except by an especial favour, to the privileges of Macedonian citizenship; while they were at once granted to every Greek, and soon to every Jew, who would settle there.
Side 88 - when Menedemus the Socratic philosopher, the pupil of Plato, was also present, who had been sent to Philadelphus as ambassador from Euboea. The translators then divided the work among themselves ; and when each had finished his task it was laid before a meeting of the seventy, and then published by authority. Thus was
Side 144 - Epiphanes, at the beginning of this reign, the Jews were divided into two parties, one favouring the Egyptians and one the Syrians. At last the Syrian party drove their enemies out of Jerusalem, and Onias the high priest, with a large body of Jews, fled to Egypt. There they were well received by Philometor, who