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... CHAPTER V. NEAR the council chamber of The Five Hundred is the room called the Rotunda , and here the Prytanes sacri- fice , and there are some silver statues not very large . And higher up are some statues of the heroes , from whom the ...
... CHAPTER V. NEAR the council chamber of The Five Hundred is the room called the Rotunda , and here the Prytanes sacri- fice , and there are some silver statues not very large . And higher up are some statues of the heroes , from whom the ...
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... CHAPTER VI . S to the actions of Attalus and Ptolemy , not only are they become more ancient from the progress of time , so that the fame of them no longer remains , but also those who lived with those kings in former days neglected to ...
... CHAPTER VI . S to the actions of Attalus and Ptolemy , not only are they become more ancient from the progress of time , so that the fame of them no longer remains , but also those who lived with those kings in former days neglected to ...
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... CHAPTER VII . HIS Ptolemy being enamoured of Arsinoe , his sister on both sides , married her , doing what was by no means usual among the Macedonians , but not uncommon among his Egyptian subjects . And next he slew his brother Ar ...
... CHAPTER VII . HIS Ptolemy being enamoured of Arsinoe , his sister on both sides , married her , doing what was by no means usual among the Macedonians , but not uncommon among his Egyptian subjects . And next he slew his brother Ar ...
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... CHAPTER VIII . UR subject now demands that we should relate the doings of Attalus , for he is also one of the Athenian Eponymi . A Macedonian by name Docimus , one of An- tigonus ' generals , who afterwards gave himself and his fortune ...
... CHAPTER VIII . UR subject now demands that we should relate the doings of Attalus , for he is also one of the Athenian Eponymi . A Macedonian by name Docimus , one of An- tigonus ' generals , who afterwards gave himself and his fortune ...
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... Rhodians gave him . Philadelphus is the one whom I have before made mention of as one of the Eponymi . And near him is also a statue of his sister Arsinoe . Now CHAPTER IX . OW the Ptolemy called Philometor is BOOK I. - ATTICA . 15.
... Rhodians gave him . Philadelphus is the one whom I have before made mention of as one of the Eponymi . And near him is also a statue of his sister Arsinoe . Now CHAPTER IX . OW the Ptolemy called Philometor is BOOK I. - ATTICA . 15.
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