The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volume 2George Bell, 1885 - Egypt |
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... wished to put the citizens to the sword , and was only stopped by Antony's forbidding it . The Egyptian army Valerius was at this time in the lowest state of discipline ; Max . ix . 1. it was the only place where the sovereign was not ...
... wished to put the citizens to the sword , and was only stopped by Antony's forbidding it . The Egyptian army Valerius was at this time in the lowest state of discipline ; Max . ix . 1. it was the only place where the sovereign was not ...
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... wished to side Vit . Pomp . With the strong . Pothinus the eunuch , Achillas the general , who was an Egyptian , and Theodotus of Chios , who was the prince's tutor in rhetoric , were the men by whom the fate of this great Roman was ...
... wished to side Vit . Pomp . With the strong . Pothinus the eunuch , Achillas the general , who was an Egyptian , and Theodotus of Chios , who was the prince's tutor in rhetoric , were the men by whom the fate of this great Roman was ...
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... wished she had before miscarried . So he bluntly refused to undertake her cause . On this , she thought herself unsafe in Rome ; she fled privately , and reached Egypt in safety with Cæsarion ; but we hear of no second child by Julius ...
... wished she had before miscarried . So he bluntly refused to undertake her cause . On this , she thought herself unsafe in Rome ; she fled privately , and reached Egypt in safety with Cæsarion ; but we hear of no second child by Julius ...
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... wished - for height , and by the want of the usual overflow ; Boeckh . and an inscription which was written both in the Greek and Egyptian languages de- clares the gratitude of the Theban priests and elders and citizens to Callimachus ...
... wished - for height , and by the want of the usual overflow ; Boeckh . and an inscription which was written both in the Greek and Egyptian languages de- clares the gratitude of the Theban priests and elders and citizens to Callimachus ...
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... wished to be thought as great a lover of learning as of mercy , he gave out that he spared the place to the prayers of his Alexandrian friend . He called the Greek citizens together in the Gymnasium , and , mounting the tribunal ...
... wished to be thought as great a lover of learning as of mercy , he gave out that he spared the place to the prayers of his Alexandrian friend . He called the Greek citizens together in the Gymnasium , and , mounting the tribunal ...
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