18. isles--He "took many" of the isles in the Ægean in his war with
the Romans, and crossed the Hellespont.
prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach . . .
to cease--Lucius Scipio Asiaticus, the Roman general, by routing
Antiochus at Magnesia (190 B.C.), caused the
reproach which he offered Rome by inflicting injuries on Rome's allies,
to cease. He did it for his own glory.
without his own reproach--with untarnished reputation.
JFB.
Painting of Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus
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