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In the fifth century before Christ, an imaginary Biography founded on fact, and intended to illustrate the manners, religion, and social condition of the Greeks, Aegyptians, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Persians, Scythians, and other nations of the ancient world, as they were in the days of Pericles and Nehemiah.