CONTENTS to VOL. II.

BOOK II. continued.

Interval between the second and third Punick war

SECT. I. Continuation of the hiftory of Hannibal

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ibid..

Hannibal reforms the courts of justice, and the treasury

of Carthage

Hannibal's retreat and death

ibid.

II. Diffenfions between the Carthaginians and Mafinissa

king of Numidia

The third Punick war

14.

20

A digreffion on the manners and character of the fecond

Scipio Africanus

40

The history of the family and pofterity of Mafinilla 46.

BOOK III.

The biftory of the Affyrians.

CHAP. I. The firft empire of the Affyrians

SECT. I. Duration of that empire

5.6

ibid.

CHAP. II. The fecond Affyrian empire, both of Nineveh and

Babylon

III. The history of the kingdom of the Medes

IV. The hiftory of the Lydians

The foundation of the empire of the Perfians and Medes by Cyrus
which contains the reigns of Cyrus, of Cambyfes, and Smerdis
the Magian.

CHAP. I. The biftory of Cyrus

112

The biflory of Cyrus, from bis infancy to the fiege of Babylon

SECT. I. Cyrus's education

Page 113

ibid.

II. Cyrus's journey to Afyages his grandfather, and bis

return into Perfia

115

III. The first campaign of Cyrus, who goes to fuccour bis

uncle Cyaxares against the Babylonians

119

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

Babylonians. The first battle

130

V. The battle of Thymbra, between Cyrus and Crafus

VI. The taking of Sardis and Crafus

144

154

The hiftory of the befieging and taking of Babylon by Cyrus 157

SCT. 1. Predictions of the principal circumftances relating to
the firge and taking of Babylon, as they are fet down in different
places of the holy feriptures

158

1. The predictions of the Jewish captivity at Babylon, and the
time of its duration

ibid.
ibid.

2. The canfes of God's wrath against Babylon
3. The decree pronounced against Babylon, Prediction of the
calamities that avere to fall upon her, and of her utter

defiruction

159

4. Cyrus called to defroy Babylon, and to deliver the Jews 160

g. God gives the signal to the commanders, and to the troops,

to march against Babylon

161

6. Particular circumstances fet down, relating to the firge and

the taking of Babylon

SECT. II. A defeription of the taking of Babylon

162

165

III. The completion of the prophecy, which foretold the

total deftruction of Babylon

IV. What followed upon the taking of Babylon

168

172

The biftory of Cyrus, from the taking of Babylon to the time of

178

bis death

SECT. I. Cyrus takes a journey into Perfia. At his return from
thence to Babylon, be forms a plan of government

for the whole empire. Daniel's credit and power

179

SLCT.

SECT. II. The beginning of the united empire of the Perfians

and Medes. The famous edict of Cyrus. Daniel's

prophecies

Reflections upon Daniel's prophecies

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183

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

Cyrus's character

187

189

IV. Wherein Herodotus and Xenophon differ in their ac-

counts of Cyrus

CHAP. II. The hiftory of Cambyfes

III. The hiftory of Smerdis the Magian

195

198

208

IV. The manners and customs of the Affyrians, Babylo-
nians, Lydians, Medes and Perfians

ARTICLE I.

of government

SECT. I. Their monarchical form of government.

212

ibid.

The respect

they paid their kings. The manner of educating

their children

213

II. The publick council, wherein the affairs of ftate were

Of their war

231

1. Their entrance into the fervice, or into military discipline 232

6. Their manner of attacking and defending frong places

7. The condition of the Perfian forces after Cyrus's time

ibid.

233

235

236

239

241

ARTICLE IV.

Religion

Their marriages, and their manner of burying the dead

ARTICLE V.

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259

The caufe of the declenfion of the Perfian empire, and of the change

that happened in their manners

SECT. I. Luxury and magnificence

261

262

II. The abject fubmiffion and flavery of the Perfians 265

III. The wrong education of their princes, another caufe

of the declenfion of the Perfian empire

IV. The breach of faith, or want of fincerity

BOOK V.

269

270

The biftory of the origin and firft fettlement of the feveral flates

of Greece.

ARTICLE I

A geographical defcription of ancient Greece

274

II. Divifion of the Grecian hiftory into four several ages

277

III. The primitive origin of the Grecians

278

IV. The different ftates into which Greece was divided

280

V. Colonies of the Greeks fent into Afia minor

285

VI. The republican form of government almoft generally established

throughout Greece.

287

VII. The Spartan government. Laws established by Lycurgus 289

1. Inftitution. The fenate

291

2. Inftituion. The divifion of the lands, and the prohibition of

gold and filver money

3. Inftitution. Of publick meals

4. Other ordinances

292

293

294

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

Lycurgus

1. Things commendable in the laws of Lycurgus

2. Things blameable in the laws of Lycurgus

VIII. The government of Athens. The laws of Solon.

tory of that republick, from the time of Solon to the

Darius the firft

IX. Illuftrious men, who diftinguished themselves in arts and

Sciences

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