THE ANCIENT HISTORY ΟΙ THE EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS, ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, MEDES BY CHARLES ROLLIN, LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, PROFESSOR OF ELOQUENCE IN TER TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. TO WHICH 18 PREFIXED, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY THE. REV. R. LYNAM, A: M ASSISTANT CHABLAAN TITHE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL JN EIGHT YOĽÚMES. FROM THE FIFTEENTH LONDON EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED, VOL. II. NEW YORK: ROBINSON AND FRANKLI (SUCCESSORS TO LEAVITT, LORD AND CO.) 1839. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. BOOK II. Continued. ART. II. The history of the besieging and taking of Babylon by Cyrus SECT 1. Predictions of the principal circumstances relating to the siege and the taking of Babylon, as they are set down in different places of the Holy Scrip- II Cyrus's journey to his grandfather Astyages, and his return into Persia III. The first campaign of Cyrus, who goes to succour his uncle Cyaxares |