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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ...care to furnish them with wives, that they might not be destitute of children, and to that end enjoined the neighbouring Provinces to send a certain number of Women to Babylon, amounting in all to fifty thousand." L. 3. c. 159After this period, we are told by Strabo, that Xerxes destroyed the celebrated tomb of Belus at Babylon, which Alexander wished to restore, but died before the accomplishment of the object which required such an enormous expense and labour to execute. No one afterwards attempted it. The remainder of the City was then destroyed, partly by Time and partly by the Persians, and by the negligence of the Macedonians, but particularly by the City of Seleucia being built so adjacent by Seleucus Nicator near the river of Tigris, which rivalled it in magnitude and eminence; so that Babylon became a very desert, and that poetical verse might be applied to it, as had been done by a dramatick author to the City of Megalopis. 'Ewjit/a, ueydAi) ecmv n MeyctAn iroAn. Strabo, l. 16. p. 1073. Ed. 1707. Pliny has given of Babylon a corresponding account as Strabo in the following passage: " Caeterum in solitudinem rediit, exhausta vicinitate Seleuciae ob id conditae a Nicatore intra nonagesimum lapidem in confluente Euphratis fossa perducti atque Tigris." Hist. Nat. l. 6". c. 26. Strabo also mentions, that another cause greatly contributed to the spoliation of Babylon, which arose from the «f uA/a, or want of timber, in the country; the architects constructed houses from the beams and columns arising from the palmtrees, and bituminated portals with the asphaltos are consumed for the sake of procuring fire. Aid f? Tw uAm nrd.viv ex foivix-wv %vAoov ai oixoo/mai Guvtiavvtcu xa. Coiton x.a.i irivAii;' irio S'e Tbs O-tuaws cnpepovTes
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