THE

ANCIENT HISTORY

OF THE

EGYPTIANS,

MEDES AND PERSIANS,

AND

CARTHAGINIANS, MACEDONIANS,
ASSYRIANS,
BABYLONIANS, GRECIANS.

BY MR. ROLLIN,

LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, Professor Of ELOQUENCE
IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE, AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY

OF INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES-LETTRES.

TRANSLATED FROM THE 'FRENCH.

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Sect. I. Hiero the Second chosen captain-

· general by the Syracusans, and soon after

appointed king. He makes an alliance with

the Romans in the beginning of the first

Punic war

. . . . .

SECT. II. Hiero's pacific reign. He particua

larly favours agriculture. He appliés the

abilities of Archimedes his relation to the

service of the public, and causes him to

make an infinite number of machines for the

defence of a besieged place. He dies very

old, and much regretted by the people

ARTICLE II.

Sect. I. Hieronymus, grandson of Hiero,

succeeds him, and causes him to be much

regretted by his vices and cruelty. He is

killed in a conspiracy. Barbarous murder

of the princesses. Hippocrates and Epicydes

possess themselves of the government of Sy-

racuse, and declare for the Carthaginians

as Hieronynius had done. . . .

SECT. II. The consul Marcellus besieges Sy-

racuse. The considerable losses of men and

ships occasioned by the dreadful machines

of Archimedes, oblige Marcellus to change

the siege into a blockade. He takes the city

at length by means of his intelligence within

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of Arcee into a bloc of his int