. Thackerayana;. Menon. Lennatus, covered with mortal wounds, fell on thefield of battle, and was borne to the camp by his followers/—Vol. VII. p. 55. Battle of Cappadocia. Neoptolemus and Eumenes (the generals in command of thehostile forces) cherished a personal hatred of each other. Theycame to a hand-to-hand encounter, andtheir horses falling into collision, theyseized each other round the body, andtheir chargers escaping from under themthey fell to the ground together. Like en-raged athletes, they fought in that posi-tion for a long time, with a species of maddened fury, untilNeoptolemus
. Thackerayana;. Menon. Lennatus, covered with mortal wounds, fell on thefield of battle, and was borne to the camp by his followers/—Vol. VII. p. 55. Battle of Cappadocia. Neoptolemus and Eumenes (the generals in command of thehostile forces) cherished a personal hatred of each other. Theycame to a hand-to-hand encounter, andtheir horses falling into collision, theyseized each other round the body, andtheir chargers escaping from under themthey fell to the ground together. Like en-raged athletes, they fought in that posi-tion for a long time, with a species of maddened fury, untilNeoptolemus received a mortal blow and expired. Eumenes thenremounted his horse and continued the battle.—Vol. VII. p. 89. The reign of Seleucus was described by the Arabs as the eraof the Double-horned, sculptors generally representing him de-corated thus, wearing the horns of a bull on his head; this princebeing so powerful that he could arrest the course of a bull bysimply seizing it by the horns.—Vol. VII. p.
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