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Cytm the elder brought up in Woods 

 and Mountains, when time and power 

 enabled, purfued the diftate of his edu 

 cation, and brought the treafures of the 

 field into rule and circum-fcription. So 

 nobly beautifying the hanging Gardens 

 of tittyon, that he was alfo thought to be 

 the authour thereof* 



Ahafnerw (whom many conceive to 

 have been Artaxerxes Longi-mAnta ) in 

 the b Countrey and City of Flowers, *>sufan fa 

 and in an open Garden, entertained his 

 Princes and people, while raftbimore 

 modcftly treated the Ladies within the 

 Palace thereof. 



But if C as fome opinion) King Ahafu- 

 eru* were Artaxerxes Mnemon^ that found 

 a life and reign anlwerable unto his great 

 memory} our magnified Cyrta was his 

 fecond Brother : who gave the occafion 

 of that memorable work^ and almoft 

 miraculous retrait of Xejtopkon. A per- 

 fon of high fpirit and honour, naturally 

 a King, though fatally prevented by the 

 harmlefle chance of /w5-geniture : Not 

 only a Lord of Gardens, but a manual! 

 planter thereof: difpofing his trees like 

 his armies in regular ordination. So 



that 







