... short time, of kings of Macedon, successors to that mighty Alexander, were made joynersand scriveners at Rome; of a tyrant of Sicily, a pedant at Corinth; of a conqueror of one-half of the world, ... encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEST OF THE WORLD'S CLASSICS,RESTRICTED TO PROSE, VOL. VII (OF X) CONTINENTAL EUROPE I***The Best of the World's Classics, ... one-half of the world, andgeneral of so many armies, a miserable suppliant to the rascally officers of a king of Egypt. So much theprolongation of five or six months of life cost the great and noble...