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Conclusion of Book 2
My reason for writing about this war at such length,
was the advisability, or rather necessity, in view of the general
purpose of my history, of making clear the relations existing
between Macedonia and Greece at a time which coincides
with the period of which I am about to treat.
Just about the same time, by the death of Euergetes,B. C. 284-280. B. C. 224-220.
Ptolemy Philopator succeeded to the throne of Egypt. At the
same period died Seleucus, son of that Seleucus who had the
double surnames of Callinicus and Pogon: he was succeeded
on the throne of Syria by his brother Antiochus. The deaths of
these three sovereigns—Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus—fell
in the same Olympiad, as was the case with the
three immediate successors to Alexander the
Great,—Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus,—
for the latter all died in the 124th Olympiad, and the former
in the 139th.
I may now fitly close this book. I have completed the
introduction and laid the foundation on which
Three Geographic Divisions of the World
This principle established as universally applicable to
General view of the geography of the world.
the world, the next point will be to make the
geography of our own part of it intelligible by a
corresponding division.
It falls, then, into three divisions, each distinguished by a
particular name,—Asia, Libya, Europe.This division of the world into three parts was an advance upon the
ancient geographers, who divided it into two, combining Egypt with Asia, and
Africa with Europe. See Sall. Jug. 17;
Lucan, Phars. 9, 411; Varro de L. L. 5, § 31.
And note on 12, 25. The boundaries are
respectively the Don, the Nile, and the Straits of the Pillars of
Hercules. Asia lies between the Don and the Nile, and lies
under that portion of the heaven which is between the northeast and the south. Libya lies between the Nile and the Pillars
of Hercules, and falls beneath the south portion of the heaven,
extending to the south-west without a break, till it reach
The Length of Hannibal's March
At this period the Carthaginians were masters of the
The length of the march from Carthagena to the Po, 1125 Roman miles.
whole Mediterranean coast of Libya from the Altars of
Philaenus,The arae Philaenorum were apparently set up as boundary stones to mark
the territory of the Pentapolis or Cyrene from Egypt: and the place retained
the name long after the disappearance of the altars (Strabo, 3.5.5-6). opposite the Great Syrtis, to the Pillars of Hercules,
a seaboard of over sixteen thousand stades. They had also
crossed the strait of the Pillars of Hercules, and got possession
of the whole seaboard of Iberia on the Mediterranean as far as
the Pyrenees, which separate the Iberes from the Celts—that
is, for a distance of about eight thousand stades: for it is
three thousand from the Pillars to New Carthage, from which
Hannibal started for Italy; two thousand six hundred from
thence to the Iber; and from that river to
Emporium again sixteen hundred; from w
Cleomenes Asks for Help from Egypt
As long as Euergetes was alive, with whom he had
Cleomenes endeavours to get assistance from the Egyptian court.
agreed to make an alliance and confederacy,
Cleomenes took no steps. But upon that
monarch's death, seeing that the time was
slipping away, and that the peculiar position of
affairs in Greece seemed almost to cry aloud for
Cleomenes,—for Antigonus was dead, the Achaeans involved
in war, and the Lacedaemonians were at one with the
Aetolians in hostility to the Achaeans and Macedonians, which
was the policy originally adopted by Cleomenes,—then, indeed,
he was actually compelled to use some expedition, and to
bestir himself to secure his departure from Alexandria.
First therefore, in interviews with the king, he urged him to
send him out with the needful amount of supplies and troops;
but not being listened to in this request, he next begged him
earnestly to let him go alone with his own servants; for he
affirmed that the state of affairs w