3i8 Anne BradJireeVs Works.
A third Seleucus next fits on the Seat,
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��And then Antiochiis firnam'd the great,
Whole large Dominions after was made fmall, [183]
By Scipio the Roman General;
Fourth Seleucus Antiochus fucceeds,
And next Epiphanes whofe wicked deeds,
Horrid Maffacres, Murthers, cruelties,
Amongft" the Jews we read in Machabees.^
Antiochus Eupater was the next,
By Rebels and Impoftors dayly vext;
So many Princes Itill were murthered.
The Royal Blood was nigh" extinguilhed;
Then'" Tygmnes the great Armenian King,
To take the Government was called in,
LucuUus^ Him, (the Roman General)
Vanquifh'd in fight, and took thole Kingdomes all;
Of Greece and Syria thus the rule did end,
In Egypt next, a little time wee'l fpend.
Firft Ptolemy being dead, his famous Son
Call'd Philadelphus, did poffefs -"' the Throne.
At Alexandria a Library did build,-^
And with feven hundred thoufand Volumes fiird;
The next two lines are not in the first edition. -^ Selcuchus next.
' then. 71 Againft.
- I Mace. i. 20-2S ; 2 Mace. v. 1-22, and elsewhere. After this, the
first edition has, —
By him was fet up the abomination /'th' holy place, which cauled defolation ;
'" quite. w That. x next I'at on.
y The Library at Alexandria built,
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