Josephus,
_Antiquities
of the Jews_, xiii, 5-9.
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xlvii. This list of the thralls of Pride is in imitation of a similar one
in Chaucer's _Monk's Tale_, which was based on Boccaccio's _De Casibus
Illustrium Virorum_.
415. PROUD KING OF BABYLON, Nebuchadnezzar. See _Daniel_, iii and iv.
420. KING CROESUS, the last king of Lydia, who was overthrown by Cyrus in
B. C. 646. _Herodotus_, i, 26.
422. PROUD ANTIOCHUS, Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria, who captured
Jerusalem twice, and defiled God's altar. He died raving mad B. C. 164.
Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_, xiii, 5-9.
424. GREAT NIMROD, "the mighty hunter" (_Genesis_, x, 8), whose game,
according to Spenser, was man. Josephus tells us that through pride he
built the tower of Babel.
426. OLD NINUS, the legendary founder of Nineveh, and put to death by his
wife, Semiramis.
428. THAT MIGHTY MONARCH, Alexander the Great (B. C. 366-323), king of
Macedon. While consulting the oracle of Jupiter Ammon in the Libyan desert
he was saluted by the priests as "Ammons Sonne. " He died either of poison
(Plutarch) or of excessive drink (Diodorus).
437. GREAT ROMULUS, legendary founder of Rome (B. C. 753).
