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13 tributed greatly to raise that establishment to the eminence it afterward attained, and long preserved, as the principal seminary for students in all the branches of learning, and especially in medicine and Surgery. To this city, therefore, students from all parts resorted; Rome ‘continuing, in this respect at least, an unenvying witness of its prosperity, both before and: after Egypt had fallen under her power.

For that thirst after universal empire, which the demolition of Carthage, and the conquest of Greece, only served to inflame, and that contempt of ‘suffering and death, with which the constant pursuit of that object was connected, and which a false and sullen philosophy in- �