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He was afraid that he wouldn’t have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he used to give with a liberal hand, more abundantly than the kings who were before him.
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Verse 30. Liberal. Epiphanes left many vestiges of his magnificence. Vaillent.—The very year when Apollonius was defeated, (Usher, A. 3838. Calmet.) he exhibited most costly games at Daphne, near Antioch, to excel those of P. Emilius, at Amphipolis. Yet he disgusted the company with his apeish conduct. Athen. verse 4.
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