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... king or conqueror . From Leonidas3 he acquired the spare habits and bodily hardihood which carried him through so many long and severe campaigns ; from Lysimachus1 he learnt to know and love the Homeric poems , and so his naturally ...
... king or conqueror . From Leonidas3 he acquired the spare habits and bodily hardihood which carried him through so many long and severe campaigns ; from Lysimachus1 he learnt to know and love the Homeric poems , and so his naturally ...
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... king of the Macedo- nians , and found himself in possession of no inheritance of ease . The Greeks were looking to the recovery of their lost freedom ; there were risings in Illyria and Thrace ; and the young king's power was not yet ...
... king of the Macedo- nians , and found himself in possession of no inheritance of ease . The Greeks were looking to the recovery of their lost freedom ; there were risings in Illyria and Thrace ; and the young king's power was not yet ...
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... King , happy if not troubled by local rebellions , was forced to look helplessly on while the jealousies of the satraps led them into quarrels and intrigues ' or even into open war . But the imperial treasuries were known to be filled ...
... King , happy if not troubled by local rebellions , was forced to look helplessly on while the jealousies of the satraps led them into quarrels and intrigues ' or even into open war . But the imperial treasuries were known to be filled ...
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... king in possession of all the chief seats of government . His object now was to secure by rapid pursuit the person of Darius , and in this he nearly succeeded : but Bessus the Satrap of Baktria and the other traitors who had accompanied ...
... king in possession of all the chief seats of government . His object now was to secure by rapid pursuit the person of Darius , and in this he nearly succeeded : but Bessus the Satrap of Baktria and the other traitors who had accompanied ...
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... King Alexander seemed to have caught something of the arbitrary and suspicious bearing of an Eastern despot . The readiness with which he accepted informations against Par- menion and Philotas , the murder of Kleitus in a fit of drunken ...
... King Alexander seemed to have caught something of the arbitrary and suspicious bearing of an Eastern despot . The readiness with which he accepted informations against Par- menion and Philotas , the murder of Kleitus in a fit of drunken ...
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Alexander in India: A Portion of the History Quintus Curtius W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2019 |
Alexander in Indi: A Portion of the History of Quintus Curtius (1879) W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2008 |
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