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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 5, chapter 92B (search)
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 5, chapter 92C (search)
This earlier prophecy had been unintelligible to the Bacchiadae, but as soon as they heard the one which was given to Eetion, they understood it at once, recognizing its similarity with the oracle of Eetion. Now understanding both oracles, they kept quiet but resolved to do away with the offspring of Eetion. Then, as soon as his wife had given birth, they sent ten men of their clan to the township where Eetion dwelt to kill the child.
These men came to Petra and passing into Eetion's courtyard, asked for the child. Labda, knowing nothing of the purpose of their coming and thinking that they wished to see the baby out of affection for its father, brought it and placed it into the hands of one of them. Now they had planned on their way that the first of them who received the child should dash it to the ground.
When, however, Labda brought and handed over the child, by divine chance it smiled at the man who took it. This he saw, and compassion prevented him from killing it. Filled with
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 123 (search)
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 159 (search)
IN the mean time, Scaurus made an expedition into Arabia, but was
stopped by the difficulty of the places about Petra. However, he laid waste
the country about Pella, though even there he was under great hardship;
for his army was afflicted with famine. In order to supply which want,
Hyrcanus afforded him some assistance, and sent him provisions by the means
of Antipater; whom also Scaurus sent to Aretas, as one well acquainted
with him, to induce him to pay him money to buy his peace. The king of
Arabia complied with the proposal, and gave him three hundred talents;
upon which Scaurus drew his army out of Arabia Take the like attestation to the truth of this submission of Aretas, king
of Arabia, to Scaurus the Roman general, in the words of Dean Aldrich.
"Hence (says he) is derived that old and famous Denarius belonging
to the Emillian family [represented in Havercamp's edition], wherein Aretas
appears in a posture of supplication, and taking hold of a camel's bridle
with his left ha
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 7, chapter 35 (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 42 (search)
Pompey, thus excluded from Dyrrhachium, and unable to execute his
first design, came to a resolution of encamping on an eminence, called Petra, where was a tolerable harbour,
sheltered from some winds. Here he ordered part of his fleet to attend him,
and corn and provisions to be brought him from Asia, and the other provinces subject to
his command. Caesar, apprehending the war would run into length, and
despairing of supplies from Italy, because the coasts were so strictly
guarded by Pompey's fleet; and his own galleys, built, the winter before, in Sicily, Gaul, and Italy, were not yet arrived; despatched L.
Canuleius, one of his lieutenants, to Epirus, for corn. And because that country
lay at a great distance from his camp, he built granaries in several places,
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