| Josiah had to stand the hectoring and nagging that thitherto had been distributed among many. |
| In 539 bce Cyrus II of the Persian Achaemenian dynasty followed up his triumph over Media by conquering Lydia and Babylonia, thus making himself ruler of the greatest empire thitherto known. |
| What had thitherto been the primary means of visual representation reacted variously. |
| Geologists at that time dated the Santorin eruption to 2000 bce, which suggested a great antiquity for Fouqué's finds and the existence of prehistoric cultures thitherto unknown in the Aegean. |
| Six years later the 2d was to receive the much-desired number which had thitherto belonged to the 1st. |
| Such information would provide the empirical evidence needed to augment the mathematical and conceptual arguments thitherto advanced for the idea that the Sun does not revolve around the Earth. |
