FROM THE

Creation of the World

TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

BY

THE LATE HON. ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER,

LORD WOODHOUSELEE,

SENATOR OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE,

AND LORD COMMISSIONER OF JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND; AND FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CIVIL
HISTORY, AND GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF EDINBURоH.

SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME THE THIRD.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET;

AND

SOLD BY THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE.

MDCCCXXXIX.

LONDON: BALNE BROTHERS, PRINTERS, GRACECHURCH STREET.

CONTENTS.

BOOK THE THIR D.

CHAPTER VII.

ROMAN HISTORY continued-War with the Samnites-

Devotion of Decius - Disgrace of the Caudine Forks-

Popular Pretensions increase—the Plebeians admitted

to the Priesthood-War with Pyrrhus, King of Epirus-

his Defeat-Conquest of all Italy by the Romans-Incor-

poration of the conquered Nations-Manner in which the

Rights of Citizenship were extended.-Page 1.

CHAPTER VIII.

CARTHAGE, a Phoenician Colony-Early History-Govern-

ment-Wars-Early History of Sicily-Syracusan Go-

vernment-Dionysius the Elder-Dionysius the Younger

-Dion-Timoleon-Agathocles-Character of the Car-

thaginians and Romans compared.—Page 11.