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The True Theory of Historical Causes
The events I refer to are the wars of Rome against the
A new departure the breaking-up of the arrangement made after the fall of Macedonia. Wars of Carthage against Massinissa; and of Rome against the Celtiberians, B. C. 155-150; and against Carthage (3d Punic war, B. C. 149-146).
Celtiberians and Vaccaei; those of Carthage
against Massinissa, king of Libya; and those
of Attalus and Prusias in Asia. Then also
Ariarathes, King of Cappadocia, having been
ejected from his throne by Orophernes through
the agency of King Demetrius, recovered his
ancestral power by the help of Attalus; while
Demetrius, son of Seleucus, after twelve years'
possession of the throne of Syria, was deprived
of it, and of his life at the same time, by a combination of the other kings against him. Then
it was, too, that the Romans restored to their
country those Greeks who had been charged
with guilt in the matter of the war with Perseus, after formally
acquitting them of the c
Revolt of Molon In Media
While this was going on, Antiochus happened to be at
Marriage of Antiochus 111,
Seleucia, on the Zeugma, when the Navarchus
Diognetus arrived from Cappadocia, on the
Euxine, bringing Laodice, the daughter of
king Mithridates, an unmarried girl, destined to be the king's
wife. This Mithridates boasted of being a descendant of one
of the seven Persians who killed the Magus,The false Smerdis (Herod. 3, 61-82). and he had
maintained the sovereignty handed down from his ancestors,
as it had been originally given to them by Darius along the
shore of the Euxine. Having gone to meet the princess
with all due pomp and splendour, Antiochus immediately
celebrated his nuptials with royal magnificence. The marriage
having been completed, he went to Antioch; and after proclaiming Laodice queen, devoted himself thenceforth to making
preparation for the war.
Meanwhile Molon had prepared the people of his ownMolon.
Satrapy to go all lengths, partly by holding out
to them hope