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which held the vanquished Darius. The commissioned angel, that 

 presided over a life pregnant with such important events ; that, un- 

 known to himself, guarded him at the Granicus; and spread over 

 him, when prostrate among the Malli, a more powerful shield of 

 protection than that of Pallas ; was now commanded to elevate the 

 destroying arm. At the banquet of Medias he presented to his lips 

 the empoisoned chalice, and the infatuated victim drank it off to the 

 very dregs. 



END OP THE THIRD AND LAST VOLUME. 





