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Excerpt from Lectures on Ancient History, From the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus, Vol. 1 of 3: Comprising the History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians and Carthaginians The substance of the earlier course of Lectures, however, says Dr. M. Niebuhr, has been made use of for the present publication, for the Historian there discusses many points which are not touched upon in the later Lectures, and which there fore have been introduced to complete and enrich the present work. There is indeed a great resemblance between the courses, which in some instances are identical even in terms and expressions; and it seems that Niebuhr, when delivering the second course, availed himself of the ms. Notes taken down by one of his pupils during the first delivery. Sometimes, how ever, he seems to have disliked the repetition of the same things; and some parts, such as the history of the Jews, were omitted in the second course from want of time. 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.