The History of Ancient Greece Author:John Gillies Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. X. Disorders on the Death of Seleucus. — New Kingdoms of Ponfus, Bithynia, Cappadocia, and Pergamus.— Gauls prepare their Irruption. — Transactions prec... more »eding that Event: I. in the Kingdom of the Greeks, or Syria ; II. in Egypt; III. in Macedon ; IV. in Thrace; V. in Greece. — Gauls, their Migrations.— Arts and Manners.—Assail Macedon, and. slay Kerau- nus. — Invade Greece. — Marvellously defeated at Delphi. — More probable Account of their Catastrophe. — Gallic Kingdom of Tule. — Their ambulatory Dominion in Lesser Asia. — They establish themselvei in New Gaul, or Galatia. — Their Pursuits in that Country, and improved Manners. -T Orty-ove years had elapsed from the death of Alexander, when Seleucus, the last survivor among his generals, followed him to the grave, death of During this memorable period, the finest coun- Seleucus. r ' tries or Asia remained a spoil to the Macedo- 280. nian captains, whose ambitious struggles with each other were unobstructed either by domestic rebellion, or by foreign invasion. But upon the death of Seleucus, as if the energy, infused by Alexander, had passed away with his immediate successors, the empire was assailed at once in its centre, and on its frontiers. Part of the con- trouling army had marched with Antiochus into the East; another part had crossed the Helles- pont, into Macedon. Under these circumstances, several nations of Lesser Asia assumed arms and independence ; particularly the inha- The new bitants of Pontus, Cappadocia, and Bithynia ; 0fp0ntHs countries which contained an admixture of Eu- Bithynia, . Cappado- ropean blood, and which had subsisted, under cia, and the Persians, as hereditary satrapies.' Pergamus had a different origin from the other states erected at this time in the Peninsula. Phile- tae...« less