syro-macedonic

Updated: June 18, 2025

He learned much of the history of foreign countries, especially of Greece, of its heroes and sages, its poets and its statesmen, of Alexander, of the Syro-Macedonic empire, of the Jews, and of the series of conquests through which Rome advanced to universal dominion. To impart knowledge is as interesting as to acquire it; and Agellius was called upon to give as well as to take.

John Henry Newman - Callista : a Tale of the Third Century