[43] From Chapter XCIV of the "History of Greece." Alexander's death, which took place at Babylon in 323 b.c., was due to a fever, which followed a carouse and lasted twelve days.
[44] This battle was fought In 338 b.c. between Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father, and the combined forces of Bœotia and Athens.
[45] The Sea of Azoff in ancient times bore this name.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Born in 1795, died in 1881; educated in Edinburgh; schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy in 1816; wrote for cyclopedias in Edinburgh; became a private tutor in 1822; visited London and Paris in 1824-25; married Jane Welsh in 1826; lived at Craigenputtoch in 1828-34, settled at Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, in 1834; elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1866; his "Life of Schiller," published in 1825; "Sartor Resartus" in 1833, "The French Revolution" in 1837, "Heroes and Hero Worship" in 1841, "Oliver Cromwell" in 1845, "Frederick the Great" in 1858-65.