Identifier: generalbiographyv5pt1aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ism rendered them irresistible. UnderOmar, Egypt was reduced, Jerusalem taken,and all Syria subdued. The emperor, who hadadvanced to Antioch chiefly as a spectator ofthe public calamities, fled hastily in 638 fromthe scene of action, and returned to Constan-tinople. He had married for a second wife(not without scandal) his niece Martina ; andthrough her influence he was induced to dividethe succession between his eldest son Constan-tino and Heracleonas his son by IMartina. Heafterwards fell into a dropsical disorder, which,as he was attempting to establish Monothelismthroughout his dominions, carried him oft inFebruary, 641, in the thirty-first year of hisreign. Univcrs. Hist. Gibhn.—A. IIERAULD, or Herault, Didier, a law-yer and man of learning, was an advocate inthe parliament at Paris, and died in 1649. liewas extremely attached to ancient literature,and published several works much esteemed.Of these the principal are: Notes upon Ter-tullians Apologetic, Minutius Felix, Arnobius,
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