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  • They had reached Pelusium, which is the frontier town between Egypt and Syria on the coast of the Mediterranean.

    History of Julius Caesar Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 1904

  • In Augustamnica, among others, there is the noble city of Pelusium, which is said to have been founded by Peleus, the father of Achilles, who by command of the gods was ordered to purify himself in the lake adjacent to the walls of the city, when, after having slain his brother

    The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

  • They had reached Pelusium, which is the frontier town between

    History of Julius Caesar Jacob Abbott 1841

  • In Ezekiel 30: 15,16, Sin, in the Vulgar interpreter is 'Pelusium': which the

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Here at Pelusium, the easternmost branch of the Nile flowed into the Mediterranean.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • But six days after leaving Gaza, Alexander came to the frontier town of Pelusium.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • But instead of taking the eastern branch back to Pelusium, the little fleet headed down the westernmost branch, known as the Canopic, toward the Greek trading post at Naucratis.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • It is written in the form of a correspondence with Dositheus of Pelusium, who was a student of Conon of Samos.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • With great fanfare, Alexander, pharaoh of Egypt, left Memphis on a spring morning sailing down the Nile to Pelusium.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Alexander split control over the regular troops he was leaving behind between two trusted Macedonian officers, one at Memphis and the other at Pelusium.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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