The barbarians were terrified; the Cilician queen fled from her chariot,
the merchants of the market abandoning their goods took to flight, and
the Greeks returned with laughter to their tents."
[96] There were two assemblies in Corinth--the first in, 338, the second
in 337.--ED.
[97] The Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles composed in Asia Minor
were written in Greek.
[98] They were called Lagidae from the father of Ptolemy I.
[99] The library of the Museum was burnt during the siege of Alexandria
by Caesar. But it had a successor in the Serapeum which contained 300,000
volumes. This is said to have been burnt in the seventh century by the
Arabs. [The tale of the destruction of the library under orders of Omar
is doubtful.--ED.]
[100] King Ptolemy Philadelphus who had great fear of death passed many
years searching for an elixir of life.
[101] There still remain to us some of the statues executed by the
orders of King Attalus to commemorate his victory over the Gauls of
Asia.
CHAPTER XVI
THE LAST YEARS OF GREECE
DECADENCE OF THE GREEK CITIES
=Rich and Poor.
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