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and about to be condemned 10 death
when his countrymen pardoned him on
account Of bis former services, and plac-
ed him at the head of an army, where
he was slain in the 48th year of his age.
Philip Of Macedon, who, by his intrigues
and arms, conquered all the neighbour
ing states, and finally destroyed the in
dependence of Greece at the battle Of
Cheronea, was assasslnated at the age
of forty-seyen, when 90 the point of
leading his victorious armies against the
barbarians of the East. His son, Alex
ander the Great, who conquered Asia
Minor, Egypt, Media, Syria, Persia, and
deemed the world TOO small for bis con-
quests, was prematurely cut off in the
thirty-second year Of his age, supposed
to have been poisoned at the insligaiion
Of his f"yorite general, Antipater. Pyr-
rhus, the Epirot, declared by HaDDibal
the greatest Of captains, fell by the
hand of woman. Hannibal himself,
the prince Of generals, after conquering
Spain. and retaining possession of Italy
for sixteen years against all the power
of the Romans, was defeated by Scipie
at Zama, fed to Syria, thence to Bith-
ynia, where he poisoned bimself. to e.
lude the swords of his enemies. Scipio,
his conqueror, as famous for his virtues
as a citizen as his military qualities, was
accused of extortion, and was obliged
teflee from Rome He died in exile at
Liternum, in the forty-eighth year of
bis age, and left, as his dying request,
that his bones might not be laid with
those Of his ungrateful countrymen.
Mithridates, king Of Pontus, by his skill
and bravery opposed the Roman power
ier thirty years, and was declared by his
enemies more powerful interchangeable
adversary than the great Hannibal, Pyr-
rhus, Perseus, or Antiochus, vas DOOM
ed to death by his unnatural son, at
tempted TO poison himself and no sue
ceeding, fell upon bis sword. Antiochus
was murdered by his followers in the
temple of Belus, al Susiana: Perseus
was carried captive to Rome, and died
in prison. Scipio, the younger, who
went over the ruins of Carthage, of
which he had been the unwilling cause,
was, after the most astonishing victories,
on the point of being made dictator,
when he was found dead in his bed,
murdered at the ins.igation Of his wife,
and the triumyirs, Carlo, Gracious, and
! Flaccus.-Cinna was assasslnated by one
of his own officers Marius and Syla,
the most cruel of Roman generals, died
in their beds, but their death was hast
ened by excessive drinking, in which
they INDUCED, TO blunt the s;ings of
guilty conscience. For time the tri-
umvirs Cesar, Pompey, and Crassus,
governed the world Crassus was treach-
erously put to death by surena.
/ Pompey the Great. the friend of alto.
who conquered Mithridates, was deteat-
ed by Cesar in the plains Of Phai saia,
and assassinated by command of Ptolemy
whom he had protected and placed on
the throne. The fate Of Cessr himself
is well known. By his astonishing a.
bilities he raised himself to the first
rank as general and an orator. After
defeating all his enemies. ne triulphed
in one day over FIVE different nations,
. Gaul, Alexandria. Pontus, africa, and
: Spain he conquered three hundred ma
I tions, took eight hundred cities, slew
} million of men, was created perpe tuai
dictator, and became master OF the
world. He generously forgave his Bit
? terest enemies. and was assassinated By
J his most intimate friends in the fitty-sIxth
year of his age. Cicero was beheaded
r near Gaeta, and Cato stabbed himself in
! Utica. Brutus, Cassius and Anthony fell
, on their swords, Ofthe twelve Caesars
: the successive masters of the world,
nine suffered a violent death.
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, Similar instances might be produced
, in modern times, to show how fortune
| sports with the destiny of mightiest
men but it will be sufficient TO close
this moral catalogue with the tragical
end of two contemporaries, the greatest
commanders, on their respective ele-
ments, that the world ever saw. Nell
/ son, by his undaunted courage, his skill
and perseverance,, raised himself far
/ above all his compeers, defeated every
t | fleet that opposed him, and when at the
summit of fame, and the last shot was
| fred at the enemy, died, at a premature
! age, of a wound which he had received
in battle. Bonaparte, the hero of the
age, commanded the most effective and
powerful armies that ever went forth in
) battle. who made and unmade kings at
: his pleasure, was defeated at Waterloo,
: banished for ever from his native coun-
try, and died of a broken heart on the
I bare rocky island Of St. Helena, Old
! Diogenes, in his tub, with little sun
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