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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. V.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
BOOKS III. IV.
OXFORD,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
MDCCCXXIX.
821.3 R161
0.5
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THE CONTENTS.
BOOK III.
CHAP. I.
OF the time passing between the destruction of Jerusalem and
the fall of the Assyrian empire.
P.I
Sect. I. Of the connection of sacred and profane history.
Sect. II. A brief rehearsal of two opinions, touching the begin-
ning of the captivity, with an answer to the cavils of Porphyry,
inveighing against St. Matthew and Daniel, upon whom the
later of these opinions is founded.
3
Sect. III. That the seventy years of captivity are to be numbered
from the destruction of Jerusalem, not from the migration of
Jechonia. 6
Sect. IV. Sundry opinions of the kings which reigned in Babylon
during the seventy years.
8
Sect. V. A more particular examination of one opinion touching
the number, persons, and reigns of the Babylonian kings. 14
Sect. VI. What may be held as probable of the persons and times
of Nabuchodonosor's successors. 19
Sect. VII. Of the victories which Nabuchodonosor obtained be-
tween the destruction of Jerusalem and conquest of Egypt. 23
Sect. VIII. That Egypt was conquered, and the king therein
reigning slain by Nabuchodonosor, contrary to the opinion of
most authors; who following Herodotus and Diodorus, relate
it otherwise.
27
Sect. IX. How Egypt was subdued and held by Nebuchadnez-
zar.
31
Sect. X. Of the sundry accounts drawn from sundry acts of Ne-
buchadnezzar, and of the destruction of Nineveh by him; the
time of which action is uncertain.
Sect. XI. Of the later time of Nebuchadnezzar; his buildings,
madness, and death.
Sect. XII. Of Evilmerodach.
34
36
40
Sect. XIII. A private conjecture of the author; serving to make
good those things which are cited out of Berosus, concerning
the successors of Evilmerodach, without wrong to the truth,
the quality, and death of Balthasar.
CHAP. II.
Of the original and first greatness of the Persians.
42
Sect. I. That the Medes were chief actors in the subversion of
the Babylonian empire.
45
Sect. II. By what means the empire was translated from the
Medes to the Persians. 47
Sect. III. Xenophon's relation of the war which the Medes and
Persians made with joint forces upon the Assyrians and
others. 49
Sect. IV. The estate of the Medes and Persians in times fore-
going this great war.
51
CHAP. III.
Of Cyrus.
Sect. I. Of Cyrus's name and first actions.
54
Sect. II. Of Croesus the king of Lydia, who made war upon Cy-
Sect. VII. Of Cyrus's decree for building the temple of God in
Jerusalem.
70
Sect. VIII. Of Cyrus's issue: and whether Atossa were his
daughter, or (as some think) were the same with queen
Esther.
73
CHAP. IV.
The estate of things from the death of Cyrus to the reign of
Darius.
Sect. I. Of the number and names of the Persian kings.
Sect. II. Of Cambyses, and the conquering of Egypt by him.
Sect. III. The rest of Cambyses his acts.
74
77
79
Sect. IV. Of the interregnum between Cambyses and Darius. 82