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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 28 | 28 | Browse | Search |
| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 31-34 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Classics in the University of Pittsburgh) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Polybius, Histories | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 28-30 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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| Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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The War in Coele-Syria
It seems to me to be at once just and proper to
B.C. 201. Valour of the people of Gaza.
give the people of GazaPtolemy Philopator had made Gaza his chief depot of war material; see
5, 68. Antiochus destroyed it in B. C. 198 for its loyalty to the King of Egypt. the praise which
they deserve. For though they do not differ
as to bravery in war from the rest of the
inhabitants of Coele-Syria, yet as parties to an international
agreement, and in their fidelity to their promises, they
far surpass them, and show altogether a courage in such
matters that is irresistible. In the first place, when all the
other people were terrified at the invasion of the Persians,Syria was conquered by the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pilezer about B.C. 747,
and was afterwards a part of the Babylonian and Persian empires. It does
not seem certain to what invasion Polybius is here referring. in
view of the greatness of their power, and one and all submitted
themselves and their countries to
Attalus in Sicyon
King Attalus had for some time past been held in
Attalus in Sicyon, B. C. 198.
extraordinary honour by the Sicyonians, ever
since the time that he ransomed the sacred
land of Apollo for them at the cost of a large
sum of money; in return for which they set up the colossal
statue of him, ten cubits high, near the temple of Apollo in
the market-place. But on this occasion, on his presenting
them with ten talents and ten thousand medimni of wheat,
their devotion to him was immensely increased; and they
accordingly voted him a statue of gold, and passed a law to
offer sacrifice in his honour every year. With these honours,
then, Attalus departed to Cenchreae.Attalus spent the winter of B.C. 198-197 at Aegina, in the course of which
he seems to have visited Sicyon. . . .