LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, PROFESSOR OF ELOQUENCE ACADEMY OF INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES-LETTRES. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. III. THE ELEVENTH EDITION, REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A SET OF MAPS LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. OTRIDGE AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. C. AND J. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. BOOK IV. continued. The history of Xerxes, intermixed with that of Sect. I. Xerxes, after having reduced Egypt, makes preparations for carrying the war into Greece. He holds a council. The wise discourse of Artabanes. II. Xerxes begins his march, and passes from Asia into Europe, by crossing the streights of the Hellespont upon III. Enumeration of Xerxes's forces. De- maratus delivers his sentimentsfree- ly upon that prince's enterprise IV. The Lacedæmonians and Athenians send to their allies in vain to re- |