The Seleucids echeloned their right cavalry wing forward to gain tactical advantage. |
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Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
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Paul, as a native of Asia Minor, would have been familiar with the Hellenistic colony-cities of Judean mercenaries founded by the Seleucids to control the local inhabitants. |
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The Romans pursued the Seleucids by crossing the Hellespont, which marked the first time a Roman army had ever entered Asia. |
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The Seleucids sued for peace, and Rome forced them to give up their recent Greek conquests. |
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This corresponded with the Maccabean Revolt directed against the Seleucids. |
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Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. |
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Other coins dating back to the times of the Seleucids Kingdom have been discovered on the same island. |
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Seleucids had constructed ports in the Persian Gulf due to same intentions. |
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This service had been interrupted by the Seleucids and all the oil in the Temple had been defiled. |
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It became a battlefield between the Seleucids, the Parthians, the Romans and the Sassanids. |
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They even established a major garrison in Sicily in case the Seleucids ever got to Italy. |
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Like the Spartans, the Seleucids lost the battle, and were forced to evacuate Greece. |
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