Ambracia

"Ambracia," he went on to say, "has been taken by storm, the statues and temple ornaments have been carried away, and everything has happened which usually does happen at the capture of cities.

The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

Written texts suggest that the ancient Greeks had engaged in chemical warfare several hundred years earlier, using braziers pans for holding hot coals, bellows and burning feathers against the Romans in 189 B.C. at the siege of Ambracia.

Ancient Chemical Warfare Jan 2009

The rest were beached and burned inside Ambracia, yielding such a vast number of ramming beaks that many of them had to be burned too.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Ambracia as Demosthenes and the Athenians desired, they might have taken it at the first onset.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

On the second day of September, Mark Antony came out of the Bay of Ambracia in six squadrons, leading the northernmost one himself.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Ambracia in Acarnia, Suda in Crete, which have few ships in them, little or no traffic or trade, which have scarce a village on them, able to bear great cities, sed viderint politici.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Meanwhile the reinforcement from the city of Ambracia had reached Idomenè, which is the name of two lofty peaks.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The whole population, with the exception of those who dwelt to the north of the isthmus and five hundred troops who were employed in protecting Ambracia and Leucadia,27 was on the watch to see where the

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

'All I know is that we fought yesterday with these men, who were marching to your aid from Ambracia.'

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Soon afterwards the Corinthians sent a force of their own, consisting of three hundred hoplites under the command of Xenocleidas the son of Euthycles, to guard Ambracia, whither they made their way with some difficulty by land.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007