hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Italy (Italy) 20 0 Browse Search
Rome (Italy) 14 0 Browse Search
Africa 10 0 Browse Search
1500 AD 9 9 Browse Search
Egypt (Egypt) 8 0 Browse Search
Carthage (Tunisia) 6 0 Browse Search
France (France) 6 0 Browse Search
Asculum (Italy) 6 0 Browse Search
1600 AD 5 5 Browse Search
Sicily (Italy) 4 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White). Search the whole document.

Found 1 total hit in 1 results.

1500 AD (search for this): book 5, chapter 11
vexed for some time past because the naval command had not been given to him, and he now perceived that he was intrusted with only the ships that he had brought, because he was under suspicion. So he plotted a new desertion. Conceiving that, however matters might turn out, he should first signalize himself by some act of valor, he distributed among his companions all the gold he had, and sailed, by rowing three days, accomplishing a distance of 1500 stades, and fell like a thunderbolt, unperceived, on the vessels that were guarding Octavius' shipyards, and darted away to an unseen place carrying off the guard-ships by twos and threes. He also sunk, or captured, or burned some merchant vessels, laden with corn, that were moored there or sailing along the coast. Everything was thrown into confusion by this raid of Menodorus, both Octavius and Agrippa being absent. The latter had gone away to procure timb