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Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 60 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Antiochus Advances To Raphia
Having marched to Pelusium Ptolemy made his first
Ptolemy enters Palestine.
halt in that town: and having been there
joined by the stragglers, and having given
out their rations of corn to his men, he
got the army in motion, and led them by a line of march
which goes through the waterless region skirting Mount
Casius and the Marshes.Called Barathra. See Strabo, 17.1.21. On the fifth day's march he
reached his destination, and pitched his camp a distance of
fifty stades from Rhaphia, which is the first city of Coele-Syria
towards Egypt.
While Ptolemy was effecting this movement AntiochusAntiochus goes to meet him.
arrived with his army at Gaza, where he
was joined by some reinforcements, and
once more commenced his advance, proceeding at a leisurely pace. He passed Rhaphia and encamped about ten stades from the enemy. For a while the
two armies preserved this distance, and remained encamped
opposite each other. But after some few days, wishing to
remove to