The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians . iMA. jy^. to iL_ L_ I ? - - ? ? ? I r - - - BOOK THE SEVENTH. THE ANCIENT HISTORY O F T H E Perfians a/id Grecians. C H A p. I. THIS chapter includes the hillory of the Perfians Ar Greeks, from the beginning of Artaxerxess^^-reign, to the Peloponnefian war, which began in the42d year of that kings reign. Sect. I. Artaxerxes ruins the fuBion of Artaba-Nus, and that of Mvstaspes his elder brother. THE Greek hiftorians give this prince the fur
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians . iMA. jy^. to iL_ L_ I ? - - ? ? ? I r - - - BOOK THE SEVENTH. THE ANCIENT HISTORY O F T H E Perfians a/id Grecians. C H A p. I. THIS chapter includes the hillory of the Perfians Ar Greeks, from the beginning of Artaxerxess^^-reign, to the Peloponnefian war, which began in the42d year of that kings reign. Sect. I. Artaxerxes ruins the fuBion of Artaba-Nus, and that of Mvstaspes his elder brother. THE Greek hiftorians give this prince the furname a. Longimanus. Strabo {a) fays, it was be- 353-caufe his hands were fo long, that when he ftood tip- ^^* ^ right he could touch his knees with them; but accord-ing to (J?) Plutarch, it was becaufe his right hand waslonger than his left. Had it not been for this blemifh,he would have been the moft graceful man of his was ftill more remarkable for hisgoodnefs and gene-rofity. He reigned about forty-nine years. (c) Although Artaxerxes, by the death of Artaba-nus, was delivered from a dangerous competitor, thereftill were two obft
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