 | Thomas Arnold - Rome - 1845 - 488 pages
...intercourse which was carried on by sea. to /66, The condition of Greece was apparently one of Oree«— Macedonia great desolation and distress. It was divided...memorable, we shall find that Messenia and Arcadia 17 ' were almost reduced • CHAP. to a desert, and that Laconia was greatly decreased ^. — in population,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 488 pages
...apparently one of «•««— Macedonia great desolation and distress. It was divided in its »r>'! Admin. widest extent into the two provinces of Macedonia...memorable, we shall find that Messenia and Arcadia "•'' were almost reduced CHAP. to a desert, and that Laconia was greatly decreased Jr^j-— in population,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Rome - 1846 - 564 pages
...Caesar, it had again been exposed to all the evils of war when Sylla was disputing the possession of ii with the generals of Mithridates. In the time of Augustus...memorable, we shall find that Messenia and Arcadia '73 were almost reduced to a desert, and that Laconia was greatly decreased in population, although... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1853 - 680 pages
...desolation Greece, and distress. It was divided in its widest extent into the two pro- SS'Sa vinces of Macedonia and Achaia, both belonging to the jurisdiction...memorable, we shall find that Messenia and Arcadia" were almost reduced to a desert, and that Laconia was greatly decreased 1 Strabo, lib. xvii. c. 2.... | |
 | Paul (st.) - 1855 - 410 pages
...Romans ; and between those times and the civil contest between Pompey and Caesar, it had been again exposed to all the evils of war when Sylla was disputing the possession of it with the general of Mithridates ..... It was from a view of the once famous cities of the Saronic Gulf that... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Bible - 1860 - 328 pages
...Romans ; and between those times and the civil contest between Pompey and Caesar, it had been again exposed to all the evils of war when Sylla was disputing the possession of it with the general of Mithridates. . . . The provinces of Macedonia and Achaia, when they petitioned for a diminution... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Bible - 1862 - 320 pages
...Romans ; and between those times and the civil contest between Pompey and Caesar, it had been again exposed to all the evils of war when Sylla was disputing the possession of it with the general of Mithridates. . . . The provinces of Macedonia and Achaia, when they petitioned for a diminution... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Bible - 1865 - 636 pages
...Romans ; and between those times and the civil contest between Pompey and Cicsar, it had been again exposed to all the evils of war when Sylla was disputing the possession of it with the general of Mithridates It was from a view of the once famous cities of the Saronic Gulf that Servius... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Rome - 1882 - 494 pages
...apparently one of Greece— 1 f J Macedonia great desolation and distress. It was divided in its ai«i widest extent into the two provinces of Macedonia...memorable, we shall find that Messenia and Arcadia 175 were almost reduced CHAP, to a desert, and that Lacouia was greatly decreased . — ^ — 'in population,... | |
 | Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer - Bible - 1884 - 750 pages
...llomaus ; and between those times and the civil contest between Pompey and Cnesar, it had been again exposed to all the evils of war when Sylla was disputing the possession of it with the general of Mithridates. . . . The provinces of Macedonia and Achaia, when they petitioned for a diminution... | |
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Triumvirs and Brutus and Cassius, and lastly between Augustus and Antonius. Besides, the country had never recovered the long series of miseries which had preceded and accompanied its conquest by the Romans; and between those times and the civil contest... 
