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seleucids

n. (plural of seleucid English)

Usage examples of "seleucids".

In terraces up the slopes of Mount Cynthus were the precincts and temples of those gods imported to Delos during the years when it had lain under the patronage of the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria.

Pompey then made Syria a Roman province, which left the last of the Seleucids to occupy the throne of Commagene.

My workmen took up the task and Athens again felt the joy of activity such as she had not known since the days of Pericles: I was completing what one of the Seleucids had aspired in vain to finish, and was making amends in kind for the depredations of our Sulla.