nd TheophanesSee footnote on 11. 2. 2. "thripes"Woodworms.); and that good water is enclosed in these hollow masses which people obtain for drinking by slitting open the coats of ice; and the genesis of these creatures is supposed to be like that of the gnats which spring from the flames and sparks at mines.
According to report, Armenia, though a small country in earlier times, was enlarged by Artaxias and Zariadris, who formerly were generals of Antiochus the Great,Reigned as king of Syria 223-187 B.C. but later, after his defeat, reigned as kings (the former as king of Sophene, Acisene, Odomantis, and certain other countries, and the latter as king of the country round Artaxata), and jointly enlarged their kingdoms by cutting off for themselves parts of the surrounding nations,—I mean by cutting off Caspiane and Phaunitis and Basoropeda from the country of the Medes; and the country along the side of Mt. Paryadres and Chorsene and Gogarene, which last is on the far side of the Cy
Polybius, Histories, book 4, Achaeus and Prusias I. of Bithynia (search)
the Antiochus who had just succeeded to the
kingdom of Syria; and he became possessed of the dominion
I have mentioned through the following circumstances. B. C. 226.
After the death of Seleucus, father of the above-named
Antiochus, and the succession of his eldest son
Seleucus to the throne, Achaeus accompanied
the latter in an expedition over Mount Taurus, about two years
before the period of which we are speaking.Seleucus II. (Callinicus), B. C. 246-226. Seleucus III. (Ceraunus), B. C.
226-223. Antiochus the Great (son of Callinicus), B. C. 223-187. For as soon as
Seleucus the younger had succeeded to the kingdom he learnt
that Attalus had already reduced all Asia on this side of Taurus
under his power; and being accordingly eager to support his
own rights, he crossed Taurus with a large army. There he
was treacherously assassinated by Apaturius the Gaul, and
Nicanor. Achaeus, in right of his relationship, promptly
revenged his murder by killing Nicanor and Apaturius; and
taking su