A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library (1905) (14595565879)

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Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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as discovered inAlexandria. Fortune did not desert Artaxerxes. The struggles ofEgypt and the Spartan Agesilaus failed of attaining any success.Quarrels for the succession of the throne broke out in Egypt. TbeKing Tachus (369-361 b.c.) was expelled, and came to an untimelyend at the Persian court through his immoderate gluttony. Hiscousin, Nectanebus IL, who had been associated with him from367 B.c., was the last Pharaoh to sit on the throne of Menes. Hisreign ended in 350 b.c. Artaxerxes II. died 358 b.c. at the age of ninety-four, after reign-ing forty-six years; the cause of his death is said to have been griefover family afflictions. He had lost his wife Statira by poisonadministered at the instigation of liis mother, Parysatis ; and inconsequence of tliis misfortune, Babyh)ii, where he had bee:i re-siding, became distasteful to him, and he went to live at Susa,where, about 390 b.(5., he restored the palace of Darius. His S(m, Vahanka, or Ochns, al aml)iti()us man, having succeeded
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c 0 C TEMPLES AT PHILAE. 215 in putting liis brotliers out ol the way, iuouuUmI the thn)iie as Arta-xerxes 111., and reigned from 358 until .>:J7 i;.(. He attempted toinvade Egypt, but was driven back, whereupon Cyprus and Phoeni-cia also broke into rebelHt)n. The endeavors ot the satraps of Syriaand Cihcia to subdue the rebelhon were in vain. Ochus himselftook the field ; and Tennes of Sidon, though he had made a success-ful resistance against the Persian generals, lost his courage at thekings approach, and treacherously gave up his native city, whichthe wretched inhabitants set on ßre, perishing themselves in itsflames. Cyprus also was brought back under Persian rule byIdrieus, the satrap of Caria. After this victory the army set forthagainst Egypt, which was compelled to submit through the co-opera-tion of Bagoas and the Grecian admiral, ^lentor. In almost all ofthese military successes, it was Greek mercenaries who turned thescale. Nectanebus II., king of Egypt, seeing the suc