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principal city, Cyren^, and which is now loft in the defert of Barca. Defcended from I^acedacmon, ^' Hcrodot. B)id. " Idem, ibid.
'^ Herodot. Uiv* cclix. & fe^. ....
the 34« THE HISTORY OF c H A P.* the Cyreneans naturally preferved the regal form of iL, -,-_r government. Under Battus, the third prince of that name, their territory was well cultivated, aiid their dties populous and flouriihing. Six cen- " turies before the Chriftian aera, they recdved a confiderable acceflion of inhabitant...s from the mo- ther country. Emboldened by this reinforcement, they attacked the neighbouring Lybians**, and feized on their pofleffions. The injured craved affiftance from Apries king of Egypt *\ A con- federacy was thus formed, in order to reprefs the incurfions, and to chaflife the audacity of the European invaders. But the valour and difcipline of Greece, though they yet feared to encounter the power of Cambyfes, and the renown of Perfia, always triumphed over the numbers and the fero- city of Africa ** : nor did Cyrene become tributary to Egypt, till Egypt itfelf had been fubdued by a Crrecian king^ and the fceptre of the Pharaohs and of Sefoftris had pafled into the hands of the Pto- lemies *^ Dariui Cambyfes is faid to have died by an accidental H)rft4rpis wound from his own fword.
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principal city, Cyren^, and which is now loft in the defert of Barca. Defcended from I^acedacmon, ^' Hcrodot. B)id. " Idem, ibid.
'^ Herodot. Uiv* cclix. & fe^. ....
the 34« THE HISTORY OF c H A P.* the Cyreneans naturally preferved the regal form of iL, -,-_r government. Under Battus, the third prince of that name, their territory was well cultivated, aiid their dties populous and flouriihing. Six cen- " turies before the Chriftian aera, they recdved a confiderable acceflion of inhabitant...s from the mo- ther country. Emboldened by this reinforcement, they attacked the neighbouring Lybians**, and feized on their pofleffions. The injured craved affiftance from Apries king of Egypt *\ A con- federacy was thus formed, in order to reprefs the incurfions, and to chaflife the audacity of the European invaders. But the valour and difcipline of Greece, though they yet feared to encounter the power of Cambyfes, and the renown of Perfia, always triumphed over the numbers and the fero- city of Africa ** : nor did Cyrene become tributary to Egypt, till Egypt itfelf had been fubdued by a Crrecian king^ and the fceptre of the Pharaohs and of Sefoftris had pafled into the hands of the Pto- lemies *^ Dariui Cambyfes is faid to have died by an accidental H)rft4rpis wound from his own fword.
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