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Laodice thought of the darkness and trembled. An old man fumbling a talisman of bone drew near them. Laodice took courage and approached him. "I pray thee, sir, I seek Amaryllis, the Seleucid." The old man turned large, grave eyes upon her. "Daughter, what dost thou know of this woman?" he asked. "My husband knows her; I do not. I am to join him under her roof." The old man looked reassured.
While he stood thus gazing, hardly seeing the face that looked up at him with such troubled wonder, he saw her turn her eyes quickly, shrink; and then wrenching her hands from his, she fled. He looked up. Two women were standing before him. "I seek Amaryllis, the Seleucid," he said, recovering himself. "I am she," the Greek said, stepping forward.
Because the short Maccabaean period of Palestinian history, during which a Seleucid did happen to be holding all Syria, is very well and widely known, it is apt to be forgotten that, throughout almost all other periods of the Hellenistic Age, southern Syria, that is Palestine and Phoenicia as well as Cyprus and the Levant coast right round to Pamphylia, was under the political domination of Egypt.
"Amaryllis, the Seleucid?" "I am called by that name." "I was bidden," Laodice continued, "by one whom we both know, to seek asylum with thee." "So? Who may that be?" Laodice whispered the name. "Philadelphus Maccabaeus." The Greek's eyes took on a puzzled look.
A third Seleucid prince Philippus had immediately confronted him there as a rival; and the great population of Antioch, excitable and delighting in opposition almost like that of Alexandria, as well as one or two of the neighbouring Arab emirs had interfered in the family strife which now seemed inseparable from the rule of the Seleucids.
He sought to restore the kingdom to its state in the better times of the Seleucid rule; all usurped powers were set aside, the robber-chiefs were summoned to give up their castles, the Arab sheiks were again restricted to their desert domains, the affairs of the several communities were definitely regulated. The Robber-Chiefs Chastised
But, though the greater powers all at the moment refrained from interference in the affairs of Syria, the land suffered far more than it would have suffered amidst a great war, through the endless and aimless feuds of the princes, knights, and cities. Arabian Princes The actual masters in the Seleucid kingdom were at this time the Bedouins, the Jews, and the Nabataeans.
Back to Fars, when the Achaemenians fell, that Persianism receded; there to maintain itself unimportantly aloof through the Seleucid and Arsacid ages; probably never very seriously menaced by Greekism, even in Seleucid times, because so remote from the routes of trade and armies.
As far as I could learn no serious excavating has hitherto been undertaken in the vicinity. The bazaars were well filled with goods of every sort. I picked up one or two excellent rugs for very little, and a few odds and ends, dating from Seleucid times, that had been unearthed by Arab laborers in their gardens or brick-kilns.
Lucullus came forward throughout as the protector of the Hellenic princes and municipalities: in Commagene he placed Antiochus, a prince of the Seleucid house, on the throne; he recognized Antiochus Asiaticus, who after the withdrawal of the Armenians had returned to Antioch, as king of Syria; he sent the forced settlers of Tigranocerta once more away to their homes. Tigranes and Mithradates
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