ABSTRACT
ALTHOUGH sanguine as to his ultimate success, Assurbanipal cannot help feeling anxious as he thinks of the -chances of the war, and this anxiety prevents him from sleeping. He calls one of the eunuchs on guard at his chamber door, and sends him to find the librarian of the palace: he wishes to have the tablets that chronicle the chief events of his reign brought to him, so that he may re-read the accounts of his former victories, and so revive his confidence.
