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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: NOTICE. This book a sequel to Zenobiapublished nearly ten years ago under the name of ' Probus, ' was soon re- published, in several places abroad, under that of ' Aurelian.' So far from complaining of the innovation, I could not but regard it as a piece of good fortune, as I had myself long thought the present a more appropriate title than the one originally chosen. Add to this, that the publisher of the work, on lately proposing a new edition, urgently advised the adoption of the foreign name, and I have thought myself sufficiently warranted in an alteration which circumstances seemed almost to require, or, at least, to excuse. w. w. chapter{{Section 4ATJEELI AN. The record which follows, is by the hand of me, Nicomachus, once the happy servant of the great Queen of Palmyra, than whom the world never saw a queen more illustrious, or a woman adorned with brighter virtues. But my design is not to write her eulogy, or to recite the wonderful story of her life. That task requires a stronger and a more impartial hand than mine. The life of Zenobia by Nicomachus, would be the portrait of a mother and a divinity, drawn by the pen of a child and a worshipper. My object is a humbler, but perhaps also a more useful one. It is to collect and arrange, in their proper order, such of the letters of the most noble Lucius Man- Lius Piso, as shall throw most light upon his character ind times, supplying all defects of incident, and filling up all chasms that may occur, out of the knowledge which, more exactly than any one else, I have been ableto gather concerning all that relates to the distinguished family of the Pisos, after its connection with the more distinguished one still, of the Queen of Palmyra. It is in this manner that I propose to amuse the few remaining days of a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217441650 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217441653 |
| Weight | 0.96 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $32.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 294 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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