A select collection of letters of antients; Written originally by Phalaris, Solon, Socrates[&c.] Cicero, Seneca, Augustus Caesar[&c.] Whereby is ... & in a word, the genius both of the Greeks - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1703 Excerpt: ... Death by forging a Will, they us'd his Son Aristonicus, as an Enemy, leading him in Triumph for only Petitioning to succeed his Father in his Dominions. Asia is besieg'd by a Son. After this it wou'd seem superflutfcS to taention my self, whom my distance from them cou'd not secure from their Assaults, because they understood I had Wealth, and a Resolution Hot' to be a Slave to their Empire: They therefore made way through the Kingdoms and Tetrarcbies that were a Mound betwixt us, by engaging Nicomedes in a War against me, tho' I was sensible enough of their villainous designs, and had before hand declar'd what has since happen'd to Ptolomy and the People of Crete, who alone, at that time, were free. But endeavouring to revenge the Injuries that were offer'd me, I drove Nrcomedes out of Bitbynia, reduc'd Asia, once the Prize and Plunder of Antiocbus and delivers Greece from the most insupportable of Slaveries. These glorious beginnings were deprived of as noble a prosecution by the Treason of the most profligate of my Servants, Arcbehus, who betrayed my Army to the Enemy; and those who through stoathfulness, or a false cunning would not Arm, while they were secure by my pains and labour, have met With a Punishment equal to their Folly. Vtolomfs Treasure buys yet a suspension of Arms, and those of Crete being already attack'd by the Romans, must not expect an end to their Disasters, till they are entirely broke and ruin'd. But when I found, that their Domestic Quarrels had only deferr'd the War, not given me Peace, tho' Tigranes vas averse to me (who now too late approves my Conduct) tho' you Were too remote, all other Nations subject to, or influenc'd by, the Romans I began the War alone, vanquished thtf Consul Marcus Cotta fa Cbalcedonia 5 and d& stro...
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