106 Heredity. 



His daughter, Christina, who induced Grotius, Descartes, and 



Vossius to reside at Stockholm ; 

 His great-grandfather, Gustavus Vasa. The latter had a daughter 



Cecilia, who was in many respects very like Christina ; 

 His gra?id-nephew, the romantic Charles XII. 

 HANNIBAL, the greatest of a distinguished family of soldiers ; 

 His father, Hamilcar Barca ; 

 His brothers, Hasdrubal and Mago. 

 MAURICE OF NASSAU, one of the greatest captains of his time, was 



Governor of the Low Countries ; 

 His fat for, William of Orange, ' the Silent ; ' 

 T3Js> grandfather, Maurice, Elector of Saxony; 

 His brother, Frederick William, Statholder ; 

 His great-nephew, William III., Statholder, and King of England; 

 His nephew, Turenne. 

 NAPIER, Sir Charles, conqueror of Scinde ; 



His great-grandfather invented logarithms, and the family 

 reckons eight members distinguished as generals or statesmen. 

 PTOLEMIES, the family of the Lagidae ; 



The founder of this dynasty was Ptolemy Soter, son of Lagos, 

 or, according to some, of Philip and Arsinoe. There were in 

 this family three distinguished men : Ptolemy Soter ; his son, 

 Ptolemy Philadelphus, and his grandson, Ptolemy Euergetes. 

 The rapid decline of the Lagidse seems to be the result of 

 heredity, produced by intermarriage. Ptolemy II. married 

 first his niece and then his sister; Ptolemy IV., his sister; 

 Ptolemy VI. and Ptolemy VII. brothers, both married, con- 

 secutively, the same sister; Ptolemy VIII. married two of his 

 sisters ; Ptolemy XII. and Ptolemy XIII. married their sister, 

 the famous Cleopatra, 

 SAXE, Marshal, natural son of Augustus II., King of Poland; he 



was great-grandfather of Georges Sand. 

 SCIPIO, P. Cornelius (Africanus Major) the greatest soldier of the 



Gens Cornelia, of which we have already spoken; 

 His fat/ier, who was conquered by Hannibal ; 

 His grandfather, drove the Carthaginians out of Corsica and 



Sardinia ; 



His daughter, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi ; 

 His two grandsons, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. 



