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The intelligence is of disaster and defeat ! The countenance of the Greek grew pale as he read. He placed the despatches in silence in the hands of Julia, having finished them, and hastily withdrew.
The sum of the news is this. A battle has been fought before Antioch, and the forces of the Queen completely routed. It appears that upon the approach of Aurelian, the several provinces of Asia Minor, which by negotiation and conquest had by Zenobia been con- nected with her kingdom, immediately ret...urned to their VOL. II. 9 Hosted by Google 98 2 E N B 1 A .
former allegiance. The cities opened tlieir gates and admitted the armies of the conqueror. Tyana alone of all the Queen's dominions in that quarter opposed the progress of the Emperor, and this strong-hold was soon by treachery delivered into his power. Thence he pressed on without pause to Antioch, where he found the Queen awaiting him. A battle immediately ensued.
At first, the Queen's forces obtained decided advan- tages, and victory seemed ready to declare for her as always before, when the gods decreed otherwise, and the day was lost — but lost, in the indignant language of the Queen, * not in fair and honorable fight, but through the baseness of a stratagem rather to have been expected from a Carthaginian than the great Aurelian.' ' Our troops,' she writes, 'had driven the enemy from his ground at every point.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The intelligence is of disaster and defeat ! The countenance of the Greek grew pale as he read. He placed the despatches in silence in the hands of Julia, having finished them, and hastily withdrew.
The sum of the news is this. A battle has been fought before Antioch, and the forces of the Queen completely routed. It appears that upon the approach of Aurelian, the several provinces of Asia Minor, which by negotiation and conquest had by Zenobia been con- nected with her kingdom, immediately ret...urned to their VOL. II. 9 Hosted by Google 98 2 E N B 1 A .
former allegiance. The cities opened tlieir gates and admitted the armies of the conqueror. Tyana alone of all the Queen's dominions in that quarter opposed the progress of the Emperor, and this strong-hold was soon by treachery delivered into his power. Thence he pressed on without pause to Antioch, where he found the Queen awaiting him. A battle immediately ensued.
At first, the Queen's forces obtained decided advan- tages, and victory seemed ready to declare for her as always before, when the gods decreed otherwise, and the day was lost — but lost, in the indignant language of the Queen, * not in fair and honorable fight, but through the baseness of a stratagem rather to have been expected from a Carthaginian than the great Aurelian.' ' Our troops,' she writes, 'had driven the enemy from his ground at every point.
What to read after Zenobia: Or, the Fall of Palmyra. in Letters of L. Manlius Piso [pseud.] From Palmyra, to His ...?
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