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APION, a Greek, called Pleistoneices, Of many quarrels, a word coined in imitation of the epithet applied to famous athletes: pleistoni/khs, of many victories. possessed a fluent and lively style. Writing in praise of king Alexander, he says: F.H.G. iii. 515. He forbade the wife of his vanquished foe, a woman of surpassing loveliness, to be brought into his presence, in order that he might not touch her even with his eyes. We have then the subject for a pleasant discussion—which of the two shall justly be considered the more continent: Publius Africanus the elder, who after he had stormed Carthage, Really New Carthage, captured in 210 B.C.; the story is told by Livy, xxvi. 50. a powerful city in Spain, and a marriageable girl of wonderful beauty, the daughter of a noble Spaniard, had been taken prisoner and brought to him, restored her unharmed to her father; or king Alexander, who refused even to see the wife of king Darius, who was also his sister, when he had taken her captive in a great battle and had heard that she was of extreme beauty, but forbade her to be brought before him.
