EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS, ASSYRIANS, MEDES MACEDONIANS. BY CHARLES ROLLIN, LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, PROFESSOR OF ELOQUENCE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY THE REV. R. LYNAM, A. M. ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN TO THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL. IN EIGHT VOLUMES GUILA FROM THE FIFTEENTH LONDON EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTEDA Library VOL IN NEW YORK NEW YORK. ROBINSON, PRATT & CO., 63 WALL STREET. Transfer from Circ. Dept. 5 Saust. MAR 23 1909 BOOK II. Continued. SECT. II. Dissensions between the Carthaginians and Masinissa, king of Numidia A digression on the manners and character of the second Scipio Africanus SECT. I. Duration of that empire 3. The lake, ditches, and canals made for the draining of the river THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE OF THE PERSIANS AND MEDES, BY 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 IV. The expedition of Cyaxares and Cyrus against the Babylonians. The 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- |