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. 1858 Excerpt: ...were overborne by superior numbers. Agis their king fell fighting after his phalanx was broken. The Lacedremonians sued for peace, and Antipater referred their ministers to a congress which was held at Corinth. It was decided that the fate of Lacedtemon should be decided by Alexander, and that fifty of the noblest ...
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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. 1858 Excerpt: ...were overborne by superior numbers. Agis their king fell fighting after his phalanx was broken. The Lacedremonians sued for peace, and Antipater referred their ministers to a congress which was held at Corinth. It was decided that the fate of Lacedtemon should be decided by Alexander, and that fifty of the noblest Spartans should be given as hostages that their state would submit to his determination. Murder of Darius.--Persian empire entirely conquered. Meanwhile Alexander had advanced into Media with the beginning of spring. Surprised by his rapidity, and disappointed of expected succours, Darius was again compelled to fly, and the Median kingdom yielded to the conqueror. Darius escaped into Bactria, where Bessus, the satrap of the province, and some others, conspired against him, made him prisoner, and finally murdered him. When overtaken by the cavalry of Alexander, the body was found by the Macedonian prince, and taken up and sent to be buried in the royal sepulchre in Penua. Bessus declared himself the king oT Asia, but he soon was driven from his satrapy, and delivered by his followers to the mercy of Alexander, who put him to death as a murderer and traitor. But the resistance of the northern provinces under different chiefs was long continued and frequently renewed; and it was not till the third year after the battle of Arbela, that the Persian empire was entirely subdued. The dominions of Alexander then reached to the Caspian sea, and the river Iaxartes (the Sirr, ) which divided them from the wilds of the wandering Scythians. There was little temptation to cross the river with any view of conquest; and though Alexander.once carried his amis against the Scythians, jt was only to chastise their turbulence. But the subjugated provinces included nearly.
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