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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 86 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschylus, Persians (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Antiochus Puts his Troops in Winter Quarters
Meanwhile Antiochus had been engaged in the
Negotiations at Memphis, B. C. 219-218.
siege of Dura:Two different towns of this name have already been mentioned (ch. 48,
52). This Dura appears to be in Phoenicia; but nothing is known of it. but the strength of the
place and the support given it by Nicolaus
prevented him from effecting anything; and as
the winter was closing in, he agreed with the ambassadors of
Ptolemy to a suspension of hostilities f Phoenicia, and expected to secure the rest by
voluntary submission or by diplomacy: for Ptolemy, he believed,
would not venture upon a general engagement. This opinion
was shared also by the ambassadors: because Sosibius fixing
his residence at Memphis conducted his negotiations with
them in a friendly manner; while he prevented those who went
back wards and forwards to Antiochus from ever becoming eyewitnesses of the preparations that were being carried on at
Alexandria. Nay, even by the time