THE WORKS OF SIR WALTER RALEGH, KT. NOW FIRST COLLECTED : TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE LIVES OF THE AUTHOR, BY OLDYS AND BIRCH. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. VI. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. BOOK V. CHAP. 1–3.. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MDCCCXXIX. THE CONTENTS. Sect. I. A discussion of that problem of Livy, Whether the Ro- mans could have resisted the great Alexander. That neither the Macedonian nor the Roman soldier was of equal valour to Sect. II. The estate of Carthage before it entered into war with §. 4. Of Dionysius the tyrant; and others following him in Sy- Sect. V. A recontinuation of the Roman war in Sicily. How Hiero, king of Syracuse, forsook the Carthaginians, and made Sect. VI. How the Romans besiege and win Agrigentum. Their beginning to maintain a fleet. Their first loss and first victory |