LATE PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, PROFESSOR OF ELOQUENCE OF INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES-LETTRES, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, IN EIGHT VOLUMES, VOL. V. THE ELEVENTH EDITION, BEVISED, CORRECTED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A SET OF MAPS LONDON: PRINTED FOR W, OTRIDGE AND SON; R. BALDWIN; F. C. AND J. CONTENTS TO VOL. V. SECT. I. Alexander's birth. The temple of Ephesus is burnt the same day. The happy natural inclinations of that prince. Aris- totle is appointed his preceptor, who in- spires him with a surprising taste for learning. He breaks Bucephalus SECT. II. Alexander, after the death of Philip, ascends the throne at twenty years of age. He subjects and reduces the na- tions contiguous to Macedon who had re- volted. He goes into Greece to dissolve the alliance formed against him. Не captures and destroys Thebes, and pardons the Athenians. He procures himself to be nominated, in the diet or assembly at Corinth, generalissimo of the Greeks against |