The Two Later Visions of Daniel; Historically Explained (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...own pleasure. This Little Horn waxed great towards the south, and towards the east, and toward the pleasant delight, or temple of Jerusalem. A few extracts, as before, will illustrate this further progress. A. C. 157. Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia, comes to Rome"Having been driven from his kingdom by the policy nnd forces of Demetrius, king of Syria, he was afterwards restored by the senate." A. C. 144. Embassy of Scipio Africanus into Egypt. A. C. 131. War with Aristonicus in Asia. "Aristouicus, after the death of Attalus Philometor, went into the midland region, and gathered quickly a multitude of slaves and needy men. He did not however continue long, but soon the cities sent a force against him, and Nicomedes the Bithynian succoured them, and the Cappadocian kings. Then there came five legates of the Romans, and after these an army, and the consul Publius Crassus; and after this Marcus Perperna, who ended the war and took Aristonicus prisoner. Thep Manius Acilius coming with ten legates, arranged the province under its present form." (Strabo xiv. p. 646.) A. C. 96. Ptolemy, king of Cyrene, dies, and leaves the Roman senate his heir. A. C. 92. Sylla is sent to Cappadocia, and receives the ambassadors of Arsaces, king of Parthia; the first public transaction between Rome and the Parthians. A. C. 88. Mithridates seizes upon Asia. A. C. 86. Athens is stormed by Sylla. A. C. 84. "Sylla, having quickly ended the war with Mithridates, and in less than three years slain 160,000 men, returned, after recovering to the Romans, Greece and Macedonia, Ionia and Asia, and many other tribes, on which Mithridates had seized." (App. Av. i. 76.) A. C. 75. Servilius subdues the Isaurians. The next year Nicomedes, king of Bithynia dies, and ma...