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judgment on Menelaus' side, in respect of the manifold labours and perils he had incurred for that marriage' sake, whereas Theseus had wives enough beside to live withal—as the AmazonHippolyta., and the daughters of Minos.Ariadne and Phædra. The third was a question of precedency between Alexander,Alexander the Great. the son of Philip, and Hannibal, the Carthaginian,The son of Hamilcar, and general of the Carthaginians against the Romans. See Plutarch in his life. in which Alexander was preferred, and his throne placed next to the elder Cyrus the Persian.The son of Cambyses, who translated the kingdom from the Medes to the Persians. See the Surveyors.
The younger Cyrus was the son of Darius Nothus and brother to Artaxerxes, of whom Xenophon.

In the fourth place we appeared, and he demanded of us what reason we had, being living men, to take land in that sacred country, and we told him all our adventures in order as they befell us: then he commanded us to stand aside, and considering