1Anceſtors, when, having overcome their Ene
mies, they were endeavouring with all their
Power to enlarge the Confines of their Em
pire, uſed to ſet up Statues and Terms to mark
the Courſe of their Victories, and to diſtinguiſh
the Limits of their Conqueſts. This was the
Origin of Pyramids, Obelisks, and the like
Monuments for the Diſtinction of Limits.
Afterwards being willing to make ſome Ac
knowledgment to the Gods for the Victories
which they had gained, they dedicated Part of
their Plunder to Heaven, and conſecrated the
publick Rejoycings to Religion. This gave
Riſe to Altars, Chapels, and other Monuments
neceſſary for their Purpoſes. They were alſo
deſirous of eternizing their Memory to Poſte
rity, and of making even their Perſons, as well
as Virtues known to future Ages. This pro
duced Trophies, Spoils, Statues, Inſcriptions,
and the like Inventions for propagating the
Fame of great Exploits. People of lower Rank
too, tho' not eminent for any particular Ser
vice done their Country, but only for their
Wealth or Proſperity, were fond of imitating
the ſame Practice, in which many different
Methods have been taken. The Terms erected
by Bacchus, at the End of his Progreſs thro'
India, were Stones ſet up at certain Diſtances,
and great Trees with their Trunks encom
paſſed with Ivy. At Lyſimachia was a very
large Altar, which was ſet up by the Argo
nauts, when they paſſed by that Place in their
Voyage. Pauſanias, on the Banks of the Ri
ver Hippanis, near the Black Sea, fixed a huge
Vaſe of Braſs, ſix Inches thick, which would
contain ſix hundred * Amphoras. Alexander,
near the River Alceſtes, which falls into the
Ocean, erected twelve Altars of prodigious large
ſquare Stones, and near the Tanais ſurrounded
all the Space of Ground which his Army took
up in its Encampment, with a Wall which
was ſeven Miles and an half in Compaſs.
Darius, having ſet down his Camp near Oth
ryſia, upon the River Arteſroe, commanded
his Soldiers to throw each of them one Stone
in different Heaps, which being very large
and numerous, might fill Poſterity with Aſ
toniſhment. Seſoſtris, in his Wars, erected an
Obelisk with handſome Inſcriptions, in Ho
nour of thoſe who made a brave Reſiſtance
againſt him; but thoſe who ſubmitted baſely
he branded with Infamy, by ſetting up Obe
lisks and Columns with the Pudenda of a Wo
man carved upon them. Jaſon, in all the
Countries thro' which he paſſed, erected
Temples in his own Honour, which we are
told were all demoliſhed by Parmenio, to the
Intent, that no Memorial might any where
remain but that of Alexander. Theſe were
Monuments erected during the Expeditions
themſelves; others, ſuch as follow, were raiſed
after the Victory obtained, and the Conqueſt
compleated. In the Temple of Pallas, the
Diligent hung the Shackles with which the
Lacedemonians had been fettered. The Evi
ans not only preſerved in their Temple the
Stone with which the Phymian King ſlew the
King of Machienſes, but even worſhiped it as
a God. The Æginetæ dedicated to their
Temple the Beaks of the Ships which they
took from their Enemies. In Imitation of
them Auguſtus, having overcome the Ægyp
tians, erected four Trophies of the Beaks of
their Ships; which were afterwards removed
to the Capitol by the Emperor Domitian, Ju
lius Cæſar had before raiſed two of the ſame
Sort, one upon the Roſtrum, and the other
before the Senate, upon defeating the Cartha
ginians in a naval Engagement. Why need I
mention that infinite Number of Towers,
Temples, Obelisks, Pyramids, Labyrinths, and
the like Works which we read of in Hiſtori
ans? I ſhall only obſerve, that this Deſire of
perpetuating their Names by ſuch Structures,
roſe to ſuch a Pitch among the Heroes of old,
that they even built Towns for no other Pur
poſe, calling them by their own Names to de
liver them down to Poſterity. Alexander, not
to mention many others, beſides thoſe Cities
which he built in Honour of his own Name,
went ſo far as to build one after the Name of his
Horſe Bucephalus. But in my Opinion, what
Pompey did was much more decent; when having
defeated Mithridates in the lower Armenia, he
built the City Nicopolis (or of Victory) in the
very Place where he had been Conqueror. But
Seleucus ſeems to have far outſtript all theſe;
ſor he built three Cities in Honour of his
Wife, and called them Apamia; five in Ho
nour of his Mother, by the Name of Laodicea;
nine called Seleucia, in Honour of his own
Name; and ten in Memory of his Father,
which were called Antiocha. Others have made
themſelves famous to Poſterity, not ſo much
by Magnificence and Expence, as by ſome par
ticular new Invention. Cæſar, with the Berries
of the Laurel which he had worn in Triumph,
planted a Grove which he conſecrated to fu
ture Triumphers. Near Aſcalon in Syria, was
mies, they were endeavouring with all their
Power to enlarge the Confines of their Em
pire, uſed to ſet up Statues and Terms to mark
the Courſe of their Victories, and to diſtinguiſh
the Limits of their Conqueſts. This was the
Origin of Pyramids, Obelisks, and the like
Monuments for the Diſtinction of Limits.
Afterwards being willing to make ſome Ac
knowledgment to the Gods for the Victories
which they had gained, they dedicated Part of
their Plunder to Heaven, and conſecrated the
publick Rejoycings to Religion. This gave
Riſe to Altars, Chapels, and other Monuments
neceſſary for their Purpoſes. They were alſo
deſirous of eternizing their Memory to Poſte
rity, and of making even their Perſons, as well
as Virtues known to future Ages. This pro
duced Trophies, Spoils, Statues, Inſcriptions,
and the like Inventions for propagating the
Fame of great Exploits. People of lower Rank
too, tho' not eminent for any particular Ser
vice done their Country, but only for their
Wealth or Proſperity, were fond of imitating
the ſame Practice, in which many different
Methods have been taken. The Terms erected
by Bacchus, at the End of his Progreſs thro'
India, were Stones ſet up at certain Diſtances,
and great Trees with their Trunks encom
paſſed with Ivy. At Lyſimachia was a very
large Altar, which was ſet up by the Argo
nauts, when they paſſed by that Place in their
Voyage. Pauſanias, on the Banks of the Ri
ver Hippanis, near the Black Sea, fixed a huge
Vaſe of Braſs, ſix Inches thick, which would
contain ſix hundred * Amphoras. Alexander,
near the River Alceſtes, which falls into the
Ocean, erected twelve Altars of prodigious large
ſquare Stones, and near the Tanais ſurrounded
all the Space of Ground which his Army took
up in its Encampment, with a Wall which
was ſeven Miles and an half in Compaſs.
Darius, having ſet down his Camp near Oth
ryſia, upon the River Arteſroe, commanded
his Soldiers to throw each of them one Stone
in different Heaps, which being very large
and numerous, might fill Poſterity with Aſ
toniſhment. Seſoſtris, in his Wars, erected an
Obelisk with handſome Inſcriptions, in Ho
nour of thoſe who made a brave Reſiſtance
againſt him; but thoſe who ſubmitted baſely
he branded with Infamy, by ſetting up Obe
lisks and Columns with the Pudenda of a Wo
man carved upon them. Jaſon, in all the
Countries thro' which he paſſed, erected
Temples in his own Honour, which we are
told were all demoliſhed by Parmenio, to the
Intent, that no Memorial might any where
remain but that of Alexander. Theſe were
Monuments erected during the Expeditions
themſelves; others, ſuch as follow, were raiſed
after the Victory obtained, and the Conqueſt
compleated. In the Temple of Pallas, the
Diligent hung the Shackles with which the
Lacedemonians had been fettered. The Evi
ans not only preſerved in their Temple the
Stone with which the Phymian King ſlew the
King of Machienſes, but even worſhiped it as
a God. The Æginetæ dedicated to their
Temple the Beaks of the Ships which they
took from their Enemies. In Imitation of
them Auguſtus, having overcome the Ægyp
tians, erected four Trophies of the Beaks of
their Ships; which were afterwards removed
to the Capitol by the Emperor Domitian, Ju
lius Cæſar had before raiſed two of the ſame
Sort, one upon the Roſtrum, and the other
before the Senate, upon defeating the Cartha
ginians in a naval Engagement. Why need I
mention that infinite Number of Towers,
Temples, Obelisks, Pyramids, Labyrinths, and
the like Works which we read of in Hiſtori
ans? I ſhall only obſerve, that this Deſire of
perpetuating their Names by ſuch Structures,
roſe to ſuch a Pitch among the Heroes of old,
that they even built Towns for no other Pur
poſe, calling them by their own Names to de
liver them down to Poſterity. Alexander, not
to mention many others, beſides thoſe Cities
which he built in Honour of his own Name,
went ſo far as to build one after the Name of his
Horſe Bucephalus. But in my Opinion, what
Pompey did was much more decent; when having
defeated Mithridates in the lower Armenia, he
built the City Nicopolis (or of Victory) in the
very Place where he had been Conqueror. But
Seleucus ſeems to have far outſtript all theſe;
ſor he built three Cities in Honour of his
Wife, and called them Apamia; five in Ho
nour of his Mother, by the Name of Laodicea;
nine called Seleucia, in Honour of his own
Name; and ten in Memory of his Father,
which were called Antiocha. Others have made
themſelves famous to Poſterity, not ſo much
by Magnificence and Expence, as by ſome par
ticular new Invention. Cæſar, with the Berries
of the Laurel which he had worn in Triumph,
planted a Grove which he conſecrated to fu
ture Triumphers. Near Aſcalon in Syria, was