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 Tin-; PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT. 1 1 ground without suspecting- that the dust thrown up by their feet had once been a city famous and feared over all Asia, and that the capital of an empire hardly less great than that of the Artaxerxes whom they had faced at Cunaxa, had once covered the ground where they stood.