Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] b.c. " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interpreter is specifically mentioned for the mission of the three philosophers on behalf of Athens in 155 B.C. : the interpreter was one of the senators , C. Acilius ( Aul . |
| 2 | The levy in mass against the Gauls is still mentioned in the charter granted to the " colonia Genetiva Julia " in Spain in 44 B.C. , when it was presumably a simple piece of antiquarianism , if it did not allude to Caesar 's recent wars . |
| 3 | Antigonus Monophthalmus had ninety thousand soldiers at Ipsus in 301 B.C. ; the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic army each consisted of about seventy thousand soldiers at Raphia in 217 B.C. The Roman superiority lay in the capacity for replacement — that is , in the capacity for surviving defeat in one or more battles , as the war against Pyrrhus and the second Punic War amply proved . |
| 4 | This event was mirrored in Stamford in 70 B.C. when Simon , an Athenian who established a school in the town , was drowned in the Welland whilst attempting human flight . |
| 5 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 6 | There were Greek mercenaries in the Egyptian army of Necho son of Psammetzchus who killed Josiah — allegedly at Megiddo — in 608 B.C. There were thirty thousand Greeks , according to Herodotus , in the army of Necho 's grandson Apries who tried to relieve Babylonian pressure on Palestine in 588 ( Jerem. 37.5 ) and probably precipitated the final onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem in 586 B.C. It has even been suggested that a king of Judah had Greek mercenaries . |
| 7 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 8 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 9 | Antigonus Monophthalmus had ninety thousand soldiers at Ipsus in 301 B.C. ; the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic army each consisted of about seventy thousand soldiers at Raphia in 217 B.C. The Roman superiority lay in the capacity for replacement — that is , in the capacity for surviving defeat in one or more battles , as the war against Pyrrhus and the second Punic War amply proved . |
| 10 | The first step in that direction was taken by Judas in 161 B.C. , when he made his treaty of alliance with the Romans . |
| 11 | As a prophet Daniel had his limitations — Though he knew about the intervention of Rome in 168 B.C. which saved Egypt from conquest by Syria , he prophesied another war between Egypt and Syria , as if the Romans would not again have intervened . |
| 12 | Eupolemus , who was Judas Maccabaeus ' envoy to Rome in 161 B.C. , composed a work in which one could read an exchange of letters between the twelve-year-old Solomon and his client kings Vaphres of Egypt and Suron of Tyre ( Eusebius , Praep . |
| 13 | L. Postumius Megellus ' bad Greek produced hilarity in Tarentum in 282 B.C. and contributed to the subsequent war ( Dionys . |