Syria
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the Syrias
in the texts
Cyropaedia
Large nation under Assyrian subjugation.
At that time the king of Assyria had subjugated all Syria, a very large nation, and had made the king of Arabia his vassal;
Thus he continued his march and came in the usual number of days to the place on the boundaries between Media and Syria from which he had originally started.
for in previous times people in Media and in Syria and in Arabia, and all the people in Asia used the chariot just as the Cyrenaeans now do.
Letters
Country Basil reached with great difficulty seeking Eustathius.
and when at last, with countless toils, I had reached Syria, I found I could not be with the philosopher, for he had departed for Egypt.
If anyone writes in Syria, this is nothing to us.
And you surely remember the history, that all Judaea was tributary to David, and the land of Idumaea and the Moabite country, and as much of Syria as bordered on it and what lay farther off as far as Mesopotamia;
Lucullus
Region named as the place where Antiochus, near the end of his life, restated his arguments to Lucullus.
'These things Antiochus said, both then at Alexandria, and many years afterward much more emphatically, when he was with me in Syria a little before he died.
The Histories
A region bordering Arabia whose coast and soil Herodotus contrasts with Egypt's in his argument that Egypt is a distinct, river-made land.
it is a land of black and crumbling earth, as if it were alluvial deposit carried down the river from Aethiopia;
but we know that the soil of Libya is redder and somewhat sandy, and Arabia and Syria are lands of clay and stones.
besides, Egypt is like neither the neighboring land of Arabia nor Libya, not even like Syria (for Syrians inhabit the seaboard of
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman province referenced in Cicero's example concerning Cassius and natural right.
Cicero in his eleventh Philippic, says, that Cassius went into Syria, which might be considered as another’s province, if men adhered to written laws, but if these were abolished, it would be considered as his own by the law of nature.
Panegyricus
A region devastated by the ongoing war, cited as a sign of Persian weakness.
Have not Phoenicia and Syria been devastated because of the war?
De Rerum Natura
A region reported to contain a site lethal to four-footed animals.
In Syria also- as men say- a spot
Is to be seen, where also four-foot kinds,
Collapse, o'ercome by its essential power,
On Anger
Region in which the Persian king's mass mutilation of a people took place.
So the king of the Persians cut off the noses of a whole people in Syria, whence the place has the name Rhinocolura.
Ad Nationes
Roman provincial region cited as scene of bloodshed against imperial authority.
As yet the Syrias reek with the odors of corpses;
Anabasis
Region through which Cyrus marches after Cilicia.
Thence he marched one stage, five parasangs, to the Gates between Cilicia and Syria.
Thence he marched through Syria nine stages, fifty parasangs, and they arrived at the Araxes river.
There was the palace of Belesys, the late ruler of Syria, and a very large and beautiful park containing all the products of the seasons.
On Hunting
Syria, one of the named places used to locate the mountain ranges abroad where lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers and bears are hunted.
Pangaeus and Cittus beyond Macedonia, on Mysian Olympus and Pindus, on Nysa beyond Syria, and in other mountain ranges capable of supporting such animals.