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be_v put_v to_o death_n 200_o r._n 241_o o._n ocean_n the_o wonder_v find_v in_o it_o 568_o 569_o r._n 618_o 619_o ochus_n king_n of_o persia_n succcee_v artaxerxes_n 448_o r._n 506_o his_o expedition_n against_o egypt_n 491_o r._n 531_o his_o act_n 498_o 534_o be_v destroy_v with_o his_o whole_a family_n 413_o r._n 564_o olympias_n the_o mother_n of_o alexander_n m._n 598_o r._n 658_o her_o return_n out_o of_o epirus_n into_o macedonia_n and_o cruelty_n towards_o archidoeus_n and_o eurydice_n and_o other_o 612_o r._n 676_o the_o terrible_a famine_n in_o the_o siege_n of_o pydna_n 621_o r._n 697_o her_o accusation_n and_o death_n 629_o 630_o r._n 698_o 699_o olympus_n the_o temple_n of_o jupiter_n olympus_n at_o agrigentum_n 340_o r._n 375_o another_z at_z syracuse_z 301_o 514_o r._n 333_o 553_o olynthian_o their_o war_n with_o amyntas_n king_n of_o macedon_n 416_o r._n 467_o demand_v their_o land_n again_o 397._o r._n 444_o war_n with_o the_o lacedaemonian_n 417_o r._n 468_o ophellas_n subdue_v the_o cyrenian_o 583_o r._n 639_o join_v with_o agathocles_n in_o africa_n 673_o r._n 753_o he_o with_o his_o auxiliary_n perfidious_o slay_v by_o agathocles_n 674_o r._n 754_o his_o cruelty_n ibid._n oracle_n of_o dodona_n 439_o r._n 495_o of_o hammon_n 543_o r._n 589_o oracle_n deliver_v to_o alexander_n m._n at_o hammon_n ibid._n to_o the_o clazomean_n and_o cumean_o concern_v leuca_n to_o dionysius_n of_o his_o death_n 440_o r._n 496_o to_o eumelus_n king_n of_o bosphoros_n of_o his_o death_n 667_o r._n 745_o to_o the_o helicenses_n 428_o r._n 482_o to_o the_o jonians_n ibid._n to_o the_o lacedaemonian_n of_o expiate_v the_o murder_n of_o pausanias_n 239_o r._n 266_o to_o the_o messinian_o in_o sicily_n 399_o r._n 447_o to_o philip_n before_o his_o death_n 517_o r._n 557_o to_o philomelus_n 489_o r._n 524_o to_o satyrus_n king_n of_o bosphorus_n of_o the_o manner_n of_o his_o death_n 667_o r._n 745_o to_o seleucus_n by_o the_o chaldaean_n 632_o 649_o r._n 701_o 720_o to_o the_o spartan_n of_o the_o victory_n of_o the_o theban_n 241_o 430_o r._n 268_o 485_o to_o the_o theban_n of_o the_o victory_n at_o leuctra_n of_o their_o ruin_n 524_o r._n 566_o to_o timoleon_n of_o his_o success_n in_o sicily_n from_o ceres_n 508_o r._n 545_o orchomenos_fw-mi raze_v by_o the_o theban_n 441_o r._n 498_o the_o theban_n their_o old_a enemy_n ibid._n ostracism_n the_o law_n and_o manner_n of_o it_o at_o athens_n 244_o r._n 270_o p._n pallica_n a_o city_n in_o sicily_n build_v by_o ducetius_n 261_o r._n 288_o it_o be_v growth_n and_o destruction_n ibid._n the_o strange_a boil_a pot_n call_v crater_n in_o the_o earth_n there_o ibid._n pamphilia_n the_o province_n of_o antigonus_n 574_o r._n 628_o the_o situation_n 576_o r._n 630_o paphlagonia_n with_o cappadocia_n 574_o 628_o the_o province_n of_o eumenes_n