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Title: The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Translated from the French
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London Printed for G. Cowie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and both built by Phoenicians ; the firs renownedby Catos fate, the last by its own. + Our countryman Howel endeavours lo reconcile the three differentaccounts of the foundation of Carthage, in the following manner. Hesays, that the town consisted of three parts, viz. Cothon, or the port andbuildings adjoining to it, which he supposes to have been first built;Megara, built next, and in respect of Cothon, called the New Town, orKarthada ; and Byrsa, or the citadel, built last of all, and probably byDido. Cothon, to agree with Appian, was built fifty years before thetaking of Troy; Megara, to correspond with Eusebus, was built ahundred and ninety-four years later ; Byrsa, to agree with Menander(cited by Josephus), was built a hundred and sixty-six years afterMegara. % Liv. Epit. 1. ii. § Justin. 1. xviii. c. 4,6,6. App. de bello Pun. p. 1. Strab. 1. xvii. p.832. Paterc. l.i. c. 6. ;; 1^0 Stadia. Stiab.l. xiv. p. 687. H Some authors say, that Dido put a trick on the natives, by desiring
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THE CARTHAGINIANS. 85 Many of the neighbouring people, invited by the prospect of lucre,repaired thitlier to sell to these new comers the necessaries of life ; andshortly after incorporated themselves with them. These inhabitants,who had been thus gathered from diflFerent places, soon grew very nu-merous. The citizens of Utica, considering them as their countrymen,and as descended from the same common stock, deputed envoys with veryconsiderable presents, and exhorted them to build a city in the placewhere they had first settled. The natives of the country, from theesteem and respect frequently shown to strangers, did as much on theirpart. Thus all things conspiring with Didos views, she built her city,which was charged with the payment of an annual tribute to the Africansfor the ground it stood upon : and called Carthada ♦ or Carthage, a namethat, in the Phccnician and Hebrew tongues (which have a great affinity),signifies the New City, It is said, that M-hen the foundations were du

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