The History of Egypt Under the PtolemiesEdward Moxon, 1838 - 220 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 36
Page
... soldiers : Demetrius beaten : city of Petra ; it stops Antigonus : Hecatœus : the Jews : Demetrius conquers at sea : Antigonus beaten : Rhodes : coins : Apel- les , Euclid , Diodorus Cronus , and Antiphilus : Thais and her children ...
... soldiers : Demetrius beaten : city of Petra ; it stops Antigonus : Hecatœus : the Jews : Demetrius conquers at sea : Antigonus beaten : Rhodes : coins : Apel- les , Euclid , Diodorus Cronus , and Antiphilus : Thais and her children ...
Page 14
... soldiers Shishank and the other kings of Lower Egypt overthrew the hardy troops of Rameses ; but , as the Greeks had from the earliest time settled in the ports of the Delta , and had already proved to the world and to themselves their ...
... soldiers Shishank and the other kings of Lower Egypt overthrew the hardy troops of Rameses ; but , as the Greeks had from the earliest time settled in the ports of the Delta , and had already proved to the world and to themselves their ...
Page 24
... soldiers ; and that among his friends he always allowed his divinity to be made the subject of a good - humoured joke . At Memphis he received the ambassadors that came from Greece to wish him joy of his success ; he reviewed his troops ...
... soldiers ; and that among his friends he always allowed his divinity to be made the subject of a good - humoured joke . At Memphis he received the ambassadors that came from Greece to wish him joy of his success ; he reviewed his troops ...
Page 27
... soldiers was due on the first day of each month , but on that day he took care to be out of the way , and the soldiers were paid a few days later ; and by doing the same on each following month , he at length changed the pay - day to ...
... soldiers was due on the first day of each month , but on that day he took care to be out of the way , and the soldiers were paid a few days later ; and by doing the same on each following month , he at length changed the pay - day to ...
Page 32
... soldiers , proud of their conquests and of their late king , always called themselves Mace- donians ; they pleased themselves with the thought that the whole of the conquered countries were still governed by the brother of Alexander ...
... soldiers , proud of their conquests and of their late king , always called themselves Mace- donians ; they pleased themselves with the thought that the whole of the conquered countries were still governed by the brother of Alexander ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afterwards Agathocles Alex Alexander Alexandria ambassadors Antigonus Antiochus Antony arms army Arrian Arridæus Arsinoë Asia Minor Athenæus Auletes battle Berenice brother Cæsar called Cicero Cleomenes Cleopatra Cleopatra Cocce coast coins Colo-Syria conquered conquests crown Cyprus Cyrene daughter Delta Demetrius Diod Egyptian Epiphanes Ethiopia Euergetes father fleet forces friends gained gave gold Greece Greek guard harbour held hieroglyphics honour hundred inscription island Jews Josephus Judæa Justinus king of Egypt king's kingdom Lathyrus lost Lower Egypt Macedonian Manetho marched Memphis mercenaries mother Museum Nile Octavianus palace Pausanias Pelusium Perdiccas perhaps Persians Phenicia Philadelphus Philometor Philopator Pliny Plutarch Polybius Porphyrius priests provinces Ptolemy Alexander Ptolemy Soter put to death queen Rameses rank Red Sea reign Roman Rome Scalig Seleucus senate sent sister soldiers soon Sosibius statue Suidas Syria temple Thebes thought thousand throne trade troops Upper Egypt wealth whole young
Popular passages
Page 200 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 200 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the oflice.
Page 200 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 200 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick ; with them the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion, (cloth of gold, of tissue,) O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork Nature...
Page 92 - Diana, and begged it of Antiochus as an ornament for Alexandria. But as soon as the statue reached Egypt, Arsinoe fell dangerously ill, and she dreamed that the goddess came by night, and told her that the illness was sent to her for the wrong done to the statue by her husband; and accordingly it was sent back with many gifts to the temple from which it had been brought.
Page 95 - The trade down the Nile was larger than it had ever been before; the coasting trade on the Mediterranean was new ; the people were rich and happy ; justice was administered to the Egyptians according to their own laws, and to the Greeks of Alexandria according to the Macedonian laws; the navy commanded the whole of the eastern half of the Mediterranean ; the schools and library had risen to a great height upon the wise plans of Ptolemy Soter ; in every point of view Alexandria was the chief city...
Page 144 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 48 - Loose and highly-coloured accounts of the wealth of Thebes had reached Greece even before the time of Homer, and again through Herodotus and other travellers in the Delta ; but nothing was certainly known of it till it was visited by Hecataeus of Abdera...
Page 50 - Hecatseus measured its rooms, its courtyards, and its avenue of sphinxes ; and by his measurements we can now distinguish its ruins from those of the other palaces of Thebes. One of its rooms, perhaps after the days of its builder, had been fitted up as a library, and held the histories and records of the priests ; but the golden zodiac or circle, on which were engraved the days of the year, with the stars...
Page 116 - J^e"IE£f> banks of oars. The longest oars were fifty-seven feet long, and weighted with lead at the handles that they might be the more easily moved. This huge ship was to be rowed by four thousand rowers, its sails were to be shifted by four hundred sailors, and three thousand soldiers were to stand in ranks upon deck. There were seven beaks in front, by which it was to strike and sink the ships of the enemy. The royal barge in "which the king and court moved on the quiet waters of the Nile, was...