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A book of worthies: Gathered from the Old Histories and Now Written Anew By Charlotte Mary Yonge
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hoshea, gilgal, ephraimites
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joab, ziklag, abishai
53
patroclus, diomed, telemachus
70
aristides, themistocles, miltiades
96
clearchus, proxenus, sanballat
141
pelopidas, epaminondas, thebans
154
parmenio, cleitus, macedonians
230
pyrrhus, curius, samnites
260
cleomenes, ephors, agis
279
massinissa, scipio, asdrubal
326
antiochus, nicanor, modin
349
cassar, bibulus, pompey
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Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Page 365
by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1928
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Places mentioned in this book
Bathsheba - Page 52
Informed by Bathsheba and Nathan, David, though very feeble, roused himself to summon his trusty and loyal servants, and cause them to take Solomon ...
more pages: 39 41 43
Athens - Page 155
155 the old struggles between Athens and Sparta continued in full force; but both cities seemed to be exhausted, and there was no warrior of mark ...
more pages: 71 74 80 83 89 90 110 145 147 160
Jerusalem - Page 328
athletic shows, at Jerusalem, and for permission to call the inhabitants of Jerusalem Antiochians, thus charming the pride of the Syrian prince.
more pages: 15 37 42 43 51 105 185 191 329 345
Rome - Page 313
Rome was in an ecstasy of joy, although old Fabius Cunctator was certain that the fate of Regulus awaited Publius Cornelius as soon as Hannibal should ...
more pages: 232 238 292 296 303 306 309 369 379 399
Samarkand - Page 205
At Bactra, whither Alexander moved upon leaving Samarkand, he found himself near one of the huge parks or forests for wild beasts that the Persian ...
more pages: 203
Placentia - Page 288
288 THE BOOK OF passing unseen the entrenchments of his enemies, arrive! at Placentia. Thence the dejected Romans retreated in two divisions Scipio to ...
more pages: 287
Emmaus - Page 339
since the trustworthiness and skilfulness of the Hebrew race rendered them very valu-able slaves ; and with this host he encamped at Emmaus, very near ...
more pages: 340
Ithaca - Page 64
All through the poem Ulysses is shown as a grave, earnest, resolute man, so firmly attached to his small, barren, rocky home in Ithaca, and to his ...
more pages: 56 65
Syracuse - Page 307
While thus engaged, he still had time to enjoy his residence at Syracuse, one of the most cultivated and learned of Grecian cities, and still redolent ...
more pages: 324
Lucca - Page 379
When warfare could no longer be carried on, he always repaired to his Gallic province on the Italian side of the Alps, where he resided at Lucca, ...
Hyderabad - Page 215
he again set forth and reached first the Indus itself, and then the city now called Hyderabad, but which the Greeks found to be called Patala, ...
Paris - Page 63
He had left a young son at home named Pyrrhus, who was just old enough to be sent for to join the Grecian host, and soon after Paris was struck by a ...
more pages: 55 56 58 167
Olympia - Page 139
The Athenians declared him an exile, and he received permission from the Spartans to settle himself near Olympia, at Scillus, a place which they had ...
more pages: 140
Eretria - Page 76
Some fugitives who escaped from Eretria bore the news to Athens that the dreadful host was coming. It was a host, not only far out-numbering the ...
Damascus - Page 176
Most of the treasure was left at Damascus with the families of the satraps, but Darius moved on in all his cumbrous state, while every one, ...
Apollonia - Page 389
Caesar then retreated, keeping a good guard, but un-molested, to Apollonia, where he found shelter for the many sick who had suffered from scanty fare ...
Phoenix - Page 158
His tutor used to call him by that glorious name, his father Peleus, and himself Phoenix. When Alexander was ten years old, some Athenian envoys came ...
Apulia - Page 291
After a few days of terrible suspense it was found that Hannibal had not advanced on Rome, but was remaining in Apulia, expecting all the Italians to ...
Cartagena - Page 294
held with Rome ; those to the south were Punic,—and the chief of these was the great seaport of New Carthage, or, as it is still called, Cartagena. ...
Marseilles - Page 386
After completing the subjection of Spain, he returned in time to receive the submission of Marseilles, which had been holding out for Pompey, ...
more pages: 283
Terni - Page 259
259 For two thousand years has it thus been dashing down the rock, so that those who gaze upon the beautiful cas-cade, now called of Terni, ...
Naples - Page 324
Scipio, with his usual vehemence, rescued him from the officers of the law, and went off to his own estate at Liternum not far from Naples. ...
Patna - Page 209
The Ganges, the sacred river of India, still lay far beyond, and there he was told of a city—supposed to be Patna—eight miles long, with five hundred ...
Seville - Page 299
This great battle was t, BC 206, at a place called Silpia, probably in ovince of Seville, but the spot cannot be identified, •e Scipio the supremacy ...
Pompeia - Page 369
to declare he knew nothing about it, and, when he was asked why then he had divorced Pompeia, said, " Because Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. ...
more pages: 364 368
Zama - Page 324
Romans," said Scipio, " this is the anniversary of the battle of Zama ; it ill becomes us to spend it in wrangling Come to the temple and return ...
more pages: 314