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A traitor named Eurycles fanned the flame by additional accusations, all utterly groundless, so that Herod wrote letters to Rome concerning the treacherous designs of his sons against him, and asking permission of Cæsar to bring them to trial. This was granted, and they were accused before an assembly of judges at Berytus and condemned. By their father's command they were starved to death.
They killed her husband at Berytus yonder, and her trouble is very near." "Yes, yes, I heard that story, also that his blood is on the hands of her own father, Benoni. Ah! who is so cruel as a bigot Jew? Not we Phoenicians even, of whom they say such evil. Once I had a daughter" here his hard face softened "but let be, let be!
'Tis much; 'tis immoderate; 'tis enormous; nevertheless, bring the wisdom of India to Berytus, and the knowledge of the stratagem shall be yours." "No, Master," they said, "it is not thy dilemma of which we are enamoured. It is thy daughter."
Syria made a Roman province, B.C. 65 Privileges granted by Rome to the Phoenician cities Phoenicia profits by the Roman suppression of piracy, but suffers from Parthian ravages The Phoenicians offend Augustus and lose their favoured position, but recover it under later emperors Mention of the Phoenician cities in the New Testament Phoenicia accepts Christianity Phoenician bishops at the early Councils Phoenician literature at this date Works of Antipater, Apollonius, Philo, Hermippus, Marinus, Maximus, and Porphyry School of law at Berytus Survival of the Phoenician commercial spirit Survival of the religion Summary.
"I was quartered there till two months ago"; adding in a different tone, "I understand that this pair no longer live." "They died," said Nehushta sadly, "the father in the amphitheatre at Berytus by command of the first Agrippa, and the mother when her child was born." "In the amphitheatre at Berytus? Was he then a malefactor?" "No, sir," broke in Miriam proudly; "he was a Christian." "Oh!
He also advised him to get an assembly together, and to appoint some place near Berytus, which is a city belonging to the Romans, and to take the presidents of Syria, and Archelaus king of Cappadocia, and as many more as he thought to be illustrious for their friendship to him, and the dignities they were in, and determine what should be done by their approbation.
For a fever having seized upon him immediately, he wrote to Agrippa and Bernice, and gave them to one of his freed-men to carry them to Varus, who at this time was procurator of the kingdom, which the king and his sister had intrusted him withal, while they were gone to Berytus with an intention of meeting Gessius.
That period having now expired, it is submitted to the British public. It may not, however, be equally notorious that the ambassadors returned by sea as far as Berytus, and upon landing there were hospitably entertained by the sage Euphronius, the head of the philosophical faculty of that University.
Having established "monopolies" upon most wares, they incessantly harassed would-be purchasers. The only thing left free from duty was clothes, but, in regard to these also, the imperial pair contrived to extort money. Silken garments had for a long time been made in Berytus and Tyre, cities of Phoenicia.
The Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes, were declared to be the legitimate system of civil jurisprudence; they alone were admitted into the tribunals, and they alone were taught in the academies of Rome, Constantinople, and Berytus.
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