Sect. III. The administration of justice. Sect. IV. The care of the provinces. The invention of posts and couriers. Sect. V. Administration of the revenues Their marriages, and the manner of burying the dead Art. V. The causes of the declension of the Persian empire, and of the change that happened in their manners. Sect. I. Luxury and magnificence Sect. II. The abject submission and slavery of the Persians Sect. III. The wrong education of their princes, another cause of the declension of the Persian empire Sect. IV. Their breach of faith, and want of sincerity Art. I. A geographical description of ancient Greece. . . . Art. 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 Art. VI. The republican form of government almost generally established throughout Greece . Art. VII. The Spartan government. Laws established by Ly- 2. The division of the lands, and the prohibition of gold and Reflections upon the government of Sparta, and upon the laws The history of that republic from the time of Solon to the Art. IX. Illustrious men, who distinguished themselves in the THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS. THE HISTORY OF THE CARTHAGINIANS a n 1. iv. ver. 41. VOL. II, CONTINUED. SECT. II. Dissensions between the Carthaginians and Masinissa, King of Numidia. AMONG the conditions of the peace granted to the Carthaginians, there was one which enacted, that they should restore to Masinissa all the territories and cities he possessed before the war; and further, Scipio, to reward the zeal and fidelity which that monarch had shown with regard to the Romans, had added to his dominions those of Syphax. This present afterwards gave rise to disputes and quarrels between the Carthaginians and Numidians. These two princes, Syphax and Masinissa, were both kings in Numidia, but reigned over different nations. The subjects of Syphax were called Masasuli, and their capital was Cirtha. Those of Masinissa were the Massyti: but both these nations are better known by the name of Numidians, which was common to them. Their principal strength consisted in their cavalry. They always rode without saddles, and some even without bridles, whence " Virgil calls them Numide infrani. In the beginning of the second Punic war, Syphax siding with the Romans, Gala, the father of Masinissa, to check the career of so powerful a neighbour, thought it his interest to join the Carthaginians, and accordingly sent out against Syphax a powerful army under the conduct of his son, at that time but seventeen years of age. Syphax, being overcome in a battle, in which it is said he lost thirty 6 Div, 1. xxiv. n. 48, 49. A |