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memoriæ prodidit: In the third year of the reign of Alla, when 
prosperity shone upon his arms, he began to form some extra- 
ordinary pivwjccts, One, of these :was the. formation of a 
new system of religion, that, fike Mahommed, he might 
be held'in vencration by posterity. — His other design 
was equally romantic. - He proposed to leave a viceroy in Hindo- 
Stan, and, like the great Secunder, to undertake the conquest of 
the world. In consequence of this project, be assumed the title of 
AescunderSani, which was struck upon the currency of 
the empire.  Numquid mirandum, si qui alterum Alexandrum se 
jactabat, () idem et summi Muhammedanorum antistitis dignitatem 
in se transfcrre, seque nomine pio Chalifico Æ/'asik - billah et tütulo 
Emür-el-Mumenin prædicare non est veritus?  Quidni principem, ut 
erat immodicæ ambitionis, licet a novandi res sacras consilio ab- 
ducimse passus,-sits Gv..Pcrisehta®lPe2p:2606 9 deinceps mad 
‘eandem insaniam rediisse, probabile videatur legenti, quæ idem au- 
ctor p. 290 narrat Quod autem adû filium attinet, qui numum 
hunc cudi jussit, et quem dissolutum et eflrenatum null in re mo- 
dum tenuisse cadem Historia (1, 299) docet, num a probabilitate 
alienum videatur, eum patris vestigiis ingressum ad similem insa- 
niam & arrogantiam abreptum esse, quà se /imamuim supremum et 
Vicarium Dei prædicaret? — Si quid novisti rectius istis, candidus 
imperti. 
Hæe autem qualiacunque delibasse suficiet interpretatione ho- 
rum numorum, in quibus haud pauci, qui ampliore commentatione, 
ut egent, ita dignissimi sunt. 
@) ‘Testem rei numum etiam habemus, quem v. Recens. Num. p. 176. 
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