PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, PROFESSOR OF ELO-
(UENCE IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE, AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL
ACADEMY OF INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES LETTRES.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

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OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

BOOK VI. CONTINUED.

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS.

CHAPTER I.

Page

1

Sect. VII. The expedition of Darius's army against Greece.

1. The state of Athens. The characters of Miltiades, The-

mistocles, and Aristides.

2. Darius sends heralds into Greece, in order to sound the

people, and to require them to submit

5. The Persians defeated at Marathon by Miltiades

Sect. VIII. Darius resolves to make war in person against Egypt,

and against Greece, &c.

Chap. II. The history of Xerxes intermixed with that of the

Greeks.

Sect. I. Xerxes reduces Egypt, &c. ..

Sect. II. Xerxes begins his march, and passes from Asia into

Europe, by crossing the straits of the Hellespont upon a

bridge of boats

Sect. III. The number of Xerxes' forces, &c.

38

Sect. IV. The Lacedæmonians and Athenians send to their al-

lies in vain to require succours from them. The com-

mand of the fleet given to the Lacedæmonians....

Sect. V. The battle of Thermopyla. The death of Leonidas 45

Sect. VI. Naval battle near Artemisium.

49

Sect. VII. The Athenians abandon their city, which is taken

and burnt by Xerxes

50

Sect. VIII. The battle of Salamis, &c.

54

Sect. IX. The battle of Platea

62

Sect. X. The battle near Mycale. The defeat of the Per-

sians

75

Sect. XI. The barbarous and inhuman revenge of Amestris,

the wife of Xerxes

77

Sect. XII. The Athenians rebuild the walls of their city, not-

withstanding the opposition of the Lacedæmonians

Sect. XIII The black design of Themistocles rejected unani-

mously by the people of Athens

79

82

Sect. XIV. The Lacedæmonians lose the chief command

through the pride and arrogance of Pausanias

85

Sect. XV. Pausanias's secret conspiracy with the Persians. His

death

87

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Sect. XVI. Themistocles flies for shelter to king Admetus, &c. 89

Sect. XVII. Aristides's disinterested administration of the pub-

lic treasure. His death and eulogium

Sect. XVIII. Death of Xerxes, who is killed by Artabanus.

His character

91

97

BOOK VII.

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS.

CHAPTER I.

Sect. I. Artaxerxes ruins the faction of Artabanus, &c.

Sect. II. Themistocles takes refuge with Artaxerxes

Sect. III. Cimon begins to make a figure at Athens, &c. .

Sect. IV. The Egypuans revol. against Persia, supported by

the Athenians

...

101

103

107

115

Sect. V. Inarus is delivered up to the King's mother. The af-

fliction of Megabysus who revoits

117

Sect. VI. Artaxerxes sends Ezra, and afterwards Nehemiah,

to Jerusalem

Sect. X. Thucydides is opposed to Pericles, &c.

133

Sect. XI. Pericles changes his conduct with regard to the peo-

ple

137

Sect. XII. Jealousy and contests arise between the Athenians

and Lacedemonians

141

Sect. XIII. New subjects of contention between the two nations 144

Sect. XIV. Troubles excited against Pericles, &c.

150

CHAPTER II.

Transactions of the Greeks in Sicily and Italy

Sect. I. The Carthaginians defeated in Sicily.

and his two brothers

Sect. II. Famous persons and cities in Græcia Major, &c. .

CHAPTER III.

The war of Peloponnesus

Sect. I. The siege of Platea by the Thebans, &c.

Sect. IV. The Athenians possess themselves of Pylus, &c.

205

Sect. II. The plague makes dreadful havoc in Attica, &c.

Sect. III. The Lacedæmonians besiege Platea.

BOOK VIII.

THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS AND GRECIANS.

CHAPTER I.

Sect. I. The very short reigns of Xerxes II. and Sogdianus, &c. 211

Sect. II. The Atheniaus make themselves masters of the Is-

land of Cythera, &c.

216