Amanus

Ejected from the Amanus, the brigand king Tarcondimotus told Antony that Labienus was doing brilliantly.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Pacorus had not been at the battle of Amanus either; rumor had it that he had gone home to Seleuceia-on-Tigris months ago, taking Hyrcanus of the Jews with him.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

And third, the province of Syria, bordered by the Amanus ranges, the western bank of the Euphrates River, and the deserts of Idumaea and Arabia Petraea.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Commanding his Galatian troopers with valor and shrewdness, Quintus Poppaedius Silo penned Labienus in halfway through the pass across Mount Amanus called the Syrian Gates, and waited for Ventidius to bring up the legions.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

He had traveled alone and overland from Epirus to the Hellespont, crossed into Bithynia, rode the length of Cappadocia and passed through the Amanus without being recognized.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Cilicia Pedia is being scoured from end to end, the brigands chased from their strongholds and the Arab raiders back across the Amanus.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Antiochus of Commagene, ruler of a client-kingdom that bordered the Amanus ranges on the north, was wavering in his Roman allegiance, said Tarcondimotus.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Possibly it is to be sought for in the region of Mt. Amanus.

On Hunting 2007

He repeated all the mistakes his subordinates had made at the Cilician Gates and Mount Amanus, still imbued with contempt for foot soldiers faced with mailed giants on mailed horses.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Antony and his two-thirds of the army marched via Carana for Syria; Ahenobarbus accompanied them as far as the Syrian Gates of the Amanus, then struck off overland for his province, Bithynia.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007