THE

ANCIENT HISTORY

OF THE

EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS, ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, MEDES AND PERSIANS,
MACEDONIANS AND GRECIANS.

BY CHARLES 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.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION,

WITH A TRANSLATION OF SUCH NOTES AND QUOTATIONS AS ARE NOT RENDERED IN THE TEXT, AND THE REDUCTION OF
THE VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF COINS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, TO THOSE
OF THE UNITED STATES.

ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF THE EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES, &c.

AND A COMPLETE SET OF MAPS OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.

BOSTON :

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL WALKER,
(HARLEM PLACE,) no. 29 NEWBURY STREET.

1823.

LISAD STANKUA!
IVERSITY

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

L. S.

District Clerk's Office.

E IT REMEMBERED, that on the eleventh day of October,

BA. D. 1823, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence

of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, Samuel Walker, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians. By Charles 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. In two volumes. Vol. II. A new and improved edition with a translation of such Notes and Quotations, as are not rendered in the text, and the reduction of the various denominations of Coins, Weights and Measures, to those of the United States. Illustrated with engravings of the Egyptian Antiquities,&c. and a complete set of Maps of Ancient Geography." ****: In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, ..An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the Times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act intitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, intitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and PropriCetors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical, and ether Prints."

Clerk of the District

JNO. W. DAVIS, Massachusetts.

KERILA