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Usage examples of antioch.

She handed him her note about the crime scene team and asked him to call the Antioch P.

Nick drove down A Street in Antioch and crossed the railroad tracks, turning down Railroad Avenue and up to the familiar dive.

They seemed hardly separable from the feverish sweetness of certain evenings in Antioch, from the excited stir of mornings in Rome, from the famous names which they bore, or from that luxury amid which their last secret was to show themselves nude, but never without ornament.

The emperor came back to Antioch to take up his winter quarters, postponing till spring the invasion of the Parthian Empire itself, but already determined to accept no overture for peace.

December night an earthquake laid a fourth of the city of Antioch in ruins within a few seconds.

But it was during the evil days at Antioch that her presence became indispensable to me, as was always her esteem in after times, an esteem which I kept till her death.

That palace of Antioch, where I was to live some years later on in a virtual frenzy of delight, was for me then but a prison, and perhaps my death cell.

I went so far as to send to the dungeons of Antioch for a criminal intended for crucifixion, whose throat was slit in my presence by a sorcerer in the hope that the soul, floating for an instant between life and death, would reveal the future.

I returned to Antioch, accompanied along the way by the acclamations of the legions.

For an entire winter Londinium became, by my choice, what Antioch had been by necessity at the time of the Parthian war, the virtual center of the world.

I took these so-called revelations with calm, since my respect for the invisible world did not go so far as to give credence to such divine claptrap: ten years before, soon after my accession to power, I had ordered the closing of the oracle of Daphne, near Antioch, which had foretold my rule, for fear that it might do the same for the first pretender who should appear.

Rome by soldiering, but by stirring up so much trouble for Tigranes in Antioch that the King of Kings had rued his decision to put Appius Claudius Pulcher in his place by making him kick his heels for months waiting for an audience.

Appius Claudius created a furor while he kicked his heels in Antioch waiting for Tigranes to give him an audience.

Quintus Marcius Rex arrived in Antioch that Clodius began to see one revenge was at hand.

To Rex it mattered little who owned what in Antioch, in Zeugma, in Samosata, in Damascus.