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a million of them were deftroyed at once at 

 Jcrufalem, after the moft prodigious devafta- 

 tions in other parts of Judea, and all this 

 without exterminating the nation; who, 

 though difperfed into different nations, ftill 

 continue very numerous. 



The Romans, as we have alfo remarked, 

 were exceffively numerous ; and to the very 

 fame caufe are we to afcribe their vaft popu- 

 lation. In the infancy of the republic, we 

 are told, that the principal inhabitants of th e 

 city followed the plough ; and every one has 

 heard of the celebrated warrior Cincinnatus, 

 who was called from the plough to command 

 an army. 



The policy of the Greeks was entirely dif- 

 ferent from that of the Romans. The effe- 

 minate Perfians prefented an eafy prey, and 

 held out, as it were, wealth and every kind 

 of luxury to the warlike Greeks, with little 

 or no trouble in the taking ; for the Perfians 

 were by no means able to contend with them 

 almoft in any number. Hence it was as fa- 

 fhionable among the Greeks to plunder the 

 Perfians, as it is now to trade to the Eaft and 

 Weft Indies. The confequences were the 



fame 



