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... speaks ; and here there is no question as to the personal identity . Again it is said that our writer in describing battles shews ignorance of military matters , and so cannot have been the man who was proconsul of Africa . Is this ...
... speaks ; and here there is no question as to the personal identity . Again it is said that our writer in describing battles shews ignorance of military matters , and so cannot have been the man who was proconsul of Africa . Is this ...
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... speak of India . B. A sketch of Alexander's career . ( 1 ) How the Greek states wore themselves out in struggles for the first place , and brought themselves down to one dead level of weariness and exhaustion , while the Macedonians ...
... speak of India . B. A sketch of Alexander's career . ( 1 ) How the Greek states wore themselves out in struggles for the first place , and brought themselves down to one dead level of weariness and exhaustion , while the Macedonians ...
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... speaks of him as φιλόσοφος , ἡγεμὼν κοινός , βασιλεὺς φιλάνθρωπος , νήφοντι καὶ πεπνυμένῳ τῷ λογισμῷ πάντα πράττων . 3 See Arrian VII 29 § 4 , Plutarch Alex 4 , 23 . 4 Plut Alex 14 . 5 See Arrian VII I § 5—3 § 6 , Strabo xv 1 §§ 61-65 ...
... speaks of him as φιλόσοφος , ἡγεμὼν κοινός , βασιλεὺς φιλάνθρωπος , νήφοντι καὶ πεπνυμένῳ τῷ λογισμῷ πάντα πράττων . 3 See Arrian VII 29 § 4 , Plutarch Alex 4 , 23 . 4 Plut Alex 14 . 5 See Arrian VII I § 5—3 § 6 , Strabo xv 1 §§ 61-65 ...
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... speaks from the point of view of one coming from central Asia as Alexander did . That the above rendering is correct seems to be shewn by VII 10 § 15 circa eam VI oppidis condendis electa sedes est , duo ad meridiem versa , quattuor ...
... speaks from the point of view of one coming from central Asia as Alexander did . That the above rendering is correct seems to be shewn by VII 10 § 15 circa eam VI oppidis condendis electa sedes est , duo ad meridiem versa , quattuor ...
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... speak of тà πedia . Caucaso ] this name was given generally to the mountains north of India by the Greeks , especially to the range of the Hindu Kush . Arrian Indica 2 §§ 3 , 4 ἄλλῃ δὲ ἄλλο καλέεται τὸ οὖρος , τῇ μὲν Παραπαμισός , τῇ δὲ ...
... speak of тà πedia . Caucaso ] this name was given generally to the mountains north of India by the Greeks , especially to the range of the Hindu Kush . Arrian Indica 2 §§ 3 , 4 ἄλλῃ δὲ ἄλλο καλέεται τὸ οὖρος , τῇ μὲν Παραπαμισός , τῇ δὲ ...
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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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