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to the authority which he knew he had in it; but those provinces when once the house of their prince was extinct, no longer acknowledged any other master than the Romans.
In paying attention to all these differences, we shall not be surprised at the facility with which Alexander preserved the kingdoms which he conquered in Asia, and the difficulties which certain other conquerors, such as Pyrrhus, &c. had to preserve their conquests ; which we must not attribute to the good or bad conduct of the conqueror, but to the difference of the government of the conquered countries.
