This was a preferable course to that pursued by the great



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Sesostris, who, after a career of glory, characterized by the
captive kings who drew his car, became impatient when he
grew old, infirm, and blind, and only laitf down the sceptre
to commit suicide.
They who examine the respective roUs of Kings- who
ruled in Eome and in Athens, will find that kingship was
suppressed in the two localities for exactly opposite reasons.
In Eome royalty perished in the person of the seventh King,
because of his vices, a crime of his son leading to the de-
struction of the father. In Athens, royalty was suppressed
on the death of the seventeenth King, because of his virtue.
