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N. Pag. viii.

 ERODOTUS relates that after the Murder of the fale Smerdis, the even Deliverers of Peria being aembled to conult upon the Form of Government they hould give their Country, Otanes pleaded trongly in Favour of the Republican; an Advice the more extraordinary in the Mouth of a Satrap, as, beides the Pretenions he might have formed to the Throne, Men in Power generally fear more than Death itelf a Species of Government which obliges them to repect other Men. But Otanes, as we may well imagine, was not heard; therefore eeing the ret on the Point of proceeding to the Choice of a Monarch, he, who did not eek to command or obey, voluntarily ceded his Right to the Crown to the other Competitors, without requiring any other Indemnification than that of being independent, him and all his Poterity. Though Herodotus had not acquainted us with the Bounds et to this Privilege, we hould be under an indipenable Neceity of uppoing ome; otherwie Otanes, acknowledging no kind of Law, and not being bound to account to any one for his