Sacred-war Definition

Sacred-war Sentence Examples

• When after the second Sacred War the Phocians were expelled, Macedon received their two votes (346 B.C.).

• They made no material change in its composition, which, accordingly, after the dissolution of their league by the Romans is found to be nearly as it was after the second Sacred War.

• This offence was the cause of the first Sacred War.

• In 339, as one of the Athenian deputies (pylagorae) in the Amphictyonic Council, he made a speech which brought about the Sacred War.

• Gradually, however, Christian enthusiasm had aroused a counter enthusiasm among the Moslems. Zengi, atabeg of Mosul, had inaugurated the sacred war by his campaigns in Syria (1137-1146).