Antigonus

How To Use Antigonus In A Sentence

• In the decisive battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C. the overshadowing power of Antigonus was broken and the control of southwestern Asia was divided between Seleucus and Ptolemy. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism
• Seleu'cus, Lysimachus, and Cassander to unite against him; and they fought with him the famous battle of Ipsus, in Phrygia, that ended in the death of Antigonus and the dissolution of his empire (301 B.C.). Mosaics of Grecian History
• A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
• Antigonus had been the only general able to consistently defeat the other Successors; without him, the last bonds the Empire had had began to dissolve.
• He portrayed the one-eyed Antigonus (King of Macedonia 306-301 BC) in three-quarter view to hide the defect.
• Even the bear, who closes this movement of the play by eating the courtier Antigonus, is at the end of a long winter hunger - ‘They are never curst but when they are hungry.
• He felt that it was his part to chuse whom he would resemble, yet he remained unresolved, though the spectator of an hundred shades of renown, among which glided by Alexander, Alcibiades, and Hephestion: at length appeared the supernatural effigy of a man, whose perfections human artist never could depict or insculp -- Demetrius, the son of Antigonus. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
• Antigonus had been the only general able to consistently defeat the other Successors; without him, the last bonds the Empire had had began to dissolve.
• For as the [496] Princes are, so are the people; Qualis Rex, talis grex: and which [497] Antigonus right well said of old, qui Macedonia regem erudit, omnes etiam subditos erudit, he that teacheth the king of Macedon, teacheth all his subjects, is a true saying still. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Nor had Philip, in his decision, acted by power, but from equity: the same afterwards was the adjudgment of King Antigonus; the same that of the Roman commander The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola