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- adjective Synonym of
Seleucid .
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Examples
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Seleucian singing women, repeating scurrilous and abusive songs upon the effeminacy and cowardliness of Crassus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Seleucian dynasty, was forced to surrender, with is entire army, to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Seleucian period was the rivalry between Greeks and Macedonians, as well as between cavalry and infantry.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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They falsified the sense of the Council of Rimini and denied their own Arianism, and Constantius backed them up by threats against the Seleucian deputation.
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"This may be the Arian way of saying that St. Basil withdrew from the Seleucian deputies when they yielded to the Acacians."
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Legitimists, who had learned nothing and forgotten nothing, they were satisfied to confirm the Seleucian decisions and re-issue their old
The Arian Controversy Henry Melvill Gwatkin 1880
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However, the Homoeans repeated the process of swearing that they were not Arians; the Emperor threatened; and at last the Seleucian deputies signed the decisions of
The Arian Controversy Henry Melvill Gwatkin 1880
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Seleucian or other Greek sources, and that not any "Palestinian" people has ever been mentioned, not even by the Romans that invented the term.
Latest Articles 2009
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a meeting of the Seleucian senate, and indignantly denounced to them the indecency of the literature which he had found in the Roman tents.
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