The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians Translated from the French 11th ed., rev., corr and illus with a set of maps newly engraved . s of all his subjects; who, out * «0<of a grateful sense of trie felicity they had enjoyedduring his reign, ranked him in the number of theirgods. Pausanias speaks of a statue which the Athe-nians erected in his honour. It was indeed just, thata city, which had been consecrated in all ages to theMuses, should give publick testimonies of its esteemfor a kin?:, who made so bright
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians Translated from the French 11th ed., rev., corr and illus with a set of maps newly engraved . s of all his subjects; who, out * «0<of a grateful sense of trie felicity they had enjoyedduring his reign, ranked him in the number of theirgods. Pausanias speaks of a statue which the Athe-nians erected in his honour. It was indeed just, thata city, which had been consecrated in all ages to theMuses, should give publick testimonies of its esteemfor a kin?:, who made so bright a figure among thelearned. * Suidas ascribes several works to thisprince, of which only the fragments are now extant * In voce ioCa^£ 4 THE HISTORY, & He had bitten the history of Arabia; the antiqui*ties of Assyria, and those of the Romans ; the his-tory of theatres, of painting and painters ; of the na-ture and properties of different animals, of grammar,and similar subjects; a catalogue of all which is givenin Abbe Sevins short dissertation on the life andworks of the younger Juba,* whence I have extract-*ed these few particulars. * Vol. IV. of the Memoirs of the Academy of BellesLettres, p. 457,. C 57 ]BOOK THE THIRD. THE HISTORY OF THE ASSYRIANS. CHAP. L THE FIRST EMPIRE OF THE ASSYRIANS. Sect. I. Duration of that Empire. The Assyrian empire was undoubtedly one of themost powerful in the world. As to the length of itsduration, two particular opinions have chiefly pre-vailed. Some authors, as Ctesias, whose opinion isfollowed by Justin, give it a duration of thirteenhundred years : others reduce it to five hundredand twenty, of which number is Herodotus. Thediminution, or rather the interruption of power,which happened in this vast empire, might possiblygive occasion to this difference of opinion, and mayperhaps serve in some measure to reconcile it. The history of those early times is so obscure, themonuments which convey it down to us so contraryto each other, and th
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