Excerpt from The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, Vol. 5 Whilfi Alexander was going round the city, to View its fortifications, he was {hot by an arrow in the calf of his leg; but he only pulled out the weapon and, without fo much as binding up 'the wound, mounted his horfe, and continued to View the out ward fortifications of the city. But as he rode with his leg downward, and the congealing of the blood. Put him to greatpain, it is related thathe cried, Every one [wears that I am the fan of j'upz'ter, 5m my wound makes me fen/idle that I am a 7mm. However, he did not leave the place till he had feen every thing, and given all the neccffary orders. Some of the fol diers, therefore, derrioliihed fuch houfes as f'tood with out the city, and with the rubbifh of them they filled up the gulphs, above mentioned. Others threw great trunks of trees and huge'ftones into them; and all laboured with fo. Much vigour, that in nine days the works were compleated, and the towers were raifed upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.