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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. 1848 Excerpt:...gathered together in herds, and one of the most extraordinary spectacles ensued which the history of the world has recorded, &c. The numbering the enemy by tens of thousands was the customary practice on such expeditions, nor must the recorded amounts be considered as an exaggeration of Herodotus." From Heeren, Persians, ch. ii. p. 437, seqq. The whole of the above quoted from sect. i. is in the highest degree worth attention. c. rrjv diropojv. inopiam, paupertatem, as B. renders it. Others, he observes, render it difficultatem, i. e. Scytharum terram invadendi, as in iv. 46, c. airopoi irpodjiMryuv. Cf. also Thucyd. iv. 32, airopurraroi. Ch. LXXXIV.--a. On the act of cruelty here related, cf. vii. 38, where a similar instance of inhumanity is related of Xerxes; and cf. vii. 39, a. What is here related of Darius is considered by Mitford, c. vi. 3, note 15, as most improbable both from the politic nature and humanity of Darius' character, on which cf. vi. 30, a. 41, a. Ch. LXXXV.--a. rrji KaXSovirjs K.t.x. "This bridge," says Rennel, p. 117, "was thrown across the Bosphorus, now called the channel of Constantinople. Although he seems to speak as if the bridge had been at Chalcedon, yet it must only be taken for a loose and general way of speaking; Chalcedon being the nearest town of note to the bridge. In c. 87, he speaks more accurately and critically. Besides, Chalcedon is situated beyond the opening of the Bosphorus, into the Propontis; and has an expanse of water of more than double the breadth of the Bosphorus, between it and Constantinople."--See the plan given in Rennel, p. 116. b. Tols Kvaveas--These rocky islands are laid down in Rennel's map. They are at the entrance of the Euxine. Cf. Article Cyanece, Class. Diet. c. T...