The History of Antiquity, Volume 6R. Bentley & son, 1882 - History, Ancient |
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according to Herodotus Achæmenids Agathyrsi Amasis Anab Arachosia Armenia army Arrian Artax Asia Minor Assyrians attack Babylon Babylonians Bactria Barca Bardiya battle Bosphorus bridge brought Cambyses carried citadel coast command conquered conquests court Croesus crossed Ctesias Cyrene Cyri Inst Cyri Instit Cyrus Dadarshis Danube Darius death defeated Democedes Diodorus dominion dotus doubt east Ecbatana Egypt Egyptians empire Euphrates expedition father fleet fortresses gates Gaumata Gobryas grace of Auramazda Greek cities Herod Herodotus Herodotus tells horses Hystaspes Indus Ionians king kingdom land Lydians Magian marched Medes Media Megabyzus Memphis Miltiades Nabonetus narrative Oppert Otanes palace parasangs Parthians Persepolis Persians Phenicians Phraortes Polycrates Prexaspes princes provinces rebellion rebels reign retired river royal Samos Sardis satraps Scoloti Scopasis Scythians sent ships silver Smerdis Strabo subjugated Susa Susiana talents temple thou Thracians throne Tigris took tribes tribute troops Vahyazdata walls Xenoph Xenophon Xerxes Zopyrus
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Page 95 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 97 - And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, And their queens thy nursing mothers: They shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, And lick up the dust of thy feet ; And thou shalt know that I am the Lord: For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Page 70 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Page 358 - Xerxes' own inscriptions he speaks of himself as "the great King, the King of Kings, the King of the lands occupied by many races, the King of this great world
Page 7 - Pythian thus spoke in hexameter verse : " I know the number of the sands, and the measure of the sea ; I understand the dumb, and hear him that does not speak ; the savor of the hard-shelled tortoise boiled in brass with the flesh of lamb strikes on my senses ; brass is laid beneath it, and brass is put over it.
Page 300 - Ntariuth (Darius) — may he live for ever ! — commanded me to go to Egypt, while he was in the land of Elam, — for he also was the great lord of all lands and a great king of Egypt, — in order that I might reinstate the number of the sacred scribes of the temples, and revive whatever had fallen into ruin.
Page 95 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth,
Page 380 - I am DARIUS, the great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia, the King of the provinces, the son of HYSTASPES, the grandson of ARSAMES, the Achaemenian.
Page 95 - Eternal shall renew their strength ; the redeemed of the Eternal shall return and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head...
Page 126 - The inscription too("/ am Cyrus, the son of Cambyses, who founded the empire of the Persians, and ruled over Asia. Grudge me not then this monument ") could scarcely have been placed on a cenotaph.