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See also: PTOLEMY II . Philadelphus (309-246), was of a delicate constitu-
tion, no Macedonian See also:warrior-See also:chief of the old See also:style. His See also:brother
Ptolemy Ceraunus found See also:compensation by becoming See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in
See also:Macedonia in 281, and perished in the Gallic invasion of 280-79
(see See also:BRENNUS). Ptolemy II. maintained a splendid See also:court in
See also:Alexandria. Not that See also:Egypt held aloof from See also:wars. Magas of
See also:Cyrene opened See also:war on his See also:half-brother (274), and See also:Antiochus I.,
the son of Seleucus, desiring See also:Palestine, attacked soon after.
Two or three years of war See also:left Egypt the dominant See also:naval See also:power
of the eastern Mediterranean; the Ptolemaic See also:sphere of power
extended over the See also:Cyclades to See also:Samothrace, and the harbours
and See also:coast towns of See also:Cilicia Trachea (" Rough Cilicia "), Pam-
phylia, See also:Lycia and See also:Caria were largely in Ptolemy's hands (Theoc.
Idyll. xvii. 86 seq.). The victory won by Antigonus, king of
Macedonia, over his See also:fleet at See also:Cos (between 258-56; see Beloch,
p. 428 seq.) did not See also:long interrupt his command of the
See also:Aegean. In a second war with the Seleucid See also:kingdom, under
Antiochus II. (after 26o), Ptolemy sustained losses on the See also: sea-
See also:board of See also:Asia See also:Minor and agreed to a See also:peace b; which Antiochus
married his daughter See also:Berenice (250?). Ptolemy's first wife,
See also:Arsinoe (I.), daughter of See also:Lysimachus, was the See also:mother of his
legitimate See also:children. After her repudiation he married, probably
for See also:political reasons, his full-See also:sister Arsinoe (II.), the widow of
Lysimachus, by an See also:Egyptian See also:custom abhorrent to See also:Greek
morality. The material and See also:literary splendour of the Alexan-
drian court was at its height under Ptolemy II. Pomps and
See also:gay religions flourished. Ptolemy deified his parents as the
8eoi & €X4iol, and his sister-wife, after her See also:death (270), as Phila-
delphus. This surname was used in later generations to distin-
guish Ptolemy II. himself, but properly if belongs to Arsinoe
only, not to the king. See also:Callimachus, made keeper of the library,
See also:Theocritus, and a See also:host of lesser poets, glorified the Ptolemaic
See also:family. Ptolemy himself was eager to increase the library and
to patronize scientific See also:research. He hau the See also:strange beasts of far-off lands sent to Alexandria. But, an enthusiast for Hellenic culture, he seems to have shown but little See also:interest in the native See also:religion. The tradition which connects the See also:Septuagint See also:translation of the Old Testament into Greek with his name is not See also:historical. Ptolemy had many brilliant mistresses, and his court, magnificent and dissolute, intellectual and artificial, has been justly compared with the See also: Versailles of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV.
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