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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK II. Continued.

THE HISTORY OF THE CARTHAGINIANS.

SECT. II. Dissensions between the Carthaginians and Masinissa, king of Numidia

The third Punic war -

A digression on the manners and character of the second Scipio Africanus

The history of the family and posterity of Masinissa

THE HISTORY OF THE ASSYRIANS.

CHAP. I. The first empire of the Assyrians

SECT. I. Duration of that empire.

2. The quays and bridge

4. The palaces, and hanging gardens.

5. The temple of Belus

3. The lake, ditches, and canals made for the draining of the river

CHAP. II. The second Assyrian empire, both of Nineveh and Babylon

Kings of Babylon

III. The history of the kingdom of the Medes

IV. The history of the Lygians

THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE OF THE PERSIANS AND MEDES, BY

CYRUS: CONTAINING THE REIGNS OF CYRUS, OF CAMBYSES, AND

SMERDIS THE MAGIAN.

CHAP. I. The history of Cyrus

ART. I. The history of Cyrus from his infancy to the siege of Babylon

SECT. I. Cyrus's education

Il Cyrus's journey to his grandfather Astyages, and his return into Persia

III. The first campaign of Cyrus, who goes to succour his uncle Cyaxares

against the Babylonians

IV. The expedition of Cyaxares and Cyrus against the Babylonians. The

ART. II. The history of the besieging and taking of Babylon by Cyrus

SECT I. Predictions of the principal circumstances relating to the siege and the taking

of Babylon, as they are set down in different places of the Holy Scrip-

3. The decree pronounced against Babylon. Prediction of the calamities

that were to fall upon her, and of her utter destruction

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME

ì. The prediction of the Jewish captivity at Babylon, and of the time of its

2. The causes of God's wrath against Babylon

4. Cyrus called to destroy Babylon, and to deliver the Jews

5. God gives the signal to the commanders, and to the troops, to march

against Babylon

6. Particular circumstances set down relating to the siege and the taking of

SECT. II. A description of the taking of Babylon

III. The completion of the prophecy which foretold the total ruin and destruc-

tion of Babylon

IV. What followed upon the taking of Babylon

ART. III. The history of Cyrus, from the taking of Babylon to the time of his death 149

SECT. I. Cyrus takes a journey into Persia. At his return from thence to Babylon,

he forms a plan of government for the whole empire. Daniel's credit and

power

II. The beginning of the united empire of the Persians and Medes. The

famous edict of Cyrus. Daniel's prophecies

Reflections upon Daniel's prophecies

III. The last years of Cyrus. The death of that prince

IV. Wherein Herodotus and Xenophon differ in their acccunts of Cyrus

Character and Eulogy of Cyrus

CHAP. II. The history of Cambyses

III. The history of Smerdis the Magian

ibid.

IV. The manners and customs of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Lydians, Medes

ART. I. Of their government

SECT. I. Their monarchical form of government. The respect they paid their kings."

The manner of educating their children

II. The public council, wherein the affairs ofstate were considered

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VI. Their manner of attacking and defending strong places

1. Their way of attacking places

2. Their manner of defending places

VII. The condition of the Persian forces after Cyrus's time

ART. III. Arts and sciences

SECT. I. Architecture

ART. V. The causes of the declension of the Persian empire, and of the change that

III. The wrong education of their princes another cause of the declension of the

IV. Their breach of faith and want of sincerity

THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE SE-

The Grecian isles

II. Division of the Grecian history into four several ages

ART. III. The primitive origin of the Grecians

ART. IV. The different states into which Greece was divided

ART. V. Colonies of the Greeks sent into Asia Minor -

The Grecian dialects

ART. VI. The republican form of government almost generally established through-
out Greece

ART. VII. The Spartan government. Laws established by Lycurgus

ibid.

1. Institution. The senate

2. Institution. The division of the lands, and the prohibition of gold and silver

3. Institution. The public meals

4. Other ordinances

Reflections upon the government of Sparta, and upon the laws of Lycurgus

1. Things commendable in the laws of Lycurgus

2. Things blamable in the laws of Lycurgus

ART. VIII. The government of Athens. The laws of Solon. The history of that

republic from the time of Solon to the reign of Darius the First

ART. IX. Illustrious men who distinguished themselves in arts and sciences

Of the seven wise men of Greece

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CHAP. I. The history of Darius intermixed with that of the Greeks

SECT. I. Darius's marriages. The imposition of tributes. The insolence and punish-

ment of Intaphernes. The death of Oretes. The story of Democedes a

physician. The Jews permitted to carry on the building of their temple.

The generosity of Syloson rewarded

II. Revolt and reduction of Babylon

III. Darius prepares for an expedition against the Scythians. A digression

1. The state of Athens. The characters of Miltiades, Themistocles, and

2. Darius sends heralds into Greece, in order to sound the people, and to

require them to submit

3. The Persians defeated at Marathon by Miltiades

The melancholy end

of that general

VIII. Darius resolves to make war in person against Egypt and against Greece:

is prevented by death. Dispute between two of his sons, concerning the

succession to the crown. Xerxes is chosen king

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