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... Ctesias to the stand . He was a native of Cnidos in Caria , and spent seventeen years at the court of Persia , as private physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon , and healed the wound which that prince received from his brother , the younger ...
... Ctesias to the stand . He was a native of Cnidos in Caria , and spent seventeen years at the court of Persia , as private physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon , and healed the wound which that prince received from his brother , the younger ...
Page 439
... Ctesias differs in Assyrian matters widely from Herodotus . According to him , Ninus , more than 2000 years before Christ , first established in Asia a vast empire , subjugating all the nations from the Persian gulf to the Hellespont ...
... Ctesias differs in Assyrian matters widely from Herodotus . According to him , Ninus , more than 2000 years before Christ , first established in Asia a vast empire , subjugating all the nations from the Persian gulf to the Hellespont ...
Page 440
... Ctesias caused this picture , equally revolting and incredible , to be transferred in its main features to the pages of later historians . Diodo- rus , Justin , Nicolaus Damascenus , Cephalion , Eusebius , Syncellus , followed in the ...
... Ctesias caused this picture , equally revolting and incredible , to be transferred in its main features to the pages of later historians . Diodo- rus , Justin , Nicolaus Damascenus , Cephalion , Eusebius , Syncellus , followed in the ...
Page 441
... Ctesias - that Babylon was the older city , and that thence Nineveh was founded . Centuries then elapse before the Assyrians appear on the scene of Scripture history , when at length they are brought up by God to chastise the rebellious ...
... Ctesias - that Babylon was the older city , and that thence Nineveh was founded . Centuries then elapse before the Assyrians appear on the scene of Scripture history , when at length they are brought up by God to chastise the rebellious ...
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... Ctesias . As early as 876 , according to Ctesias , Nineveh was laid in ashes . A long series of dissolute do - nothings had revelled in her banqueting halls , and fondled concubines in her seraglios , until at last the most dissolute of ...
... Ctesias . As early as 876 , according to Ctesias , Nineveh was laid in ashes . A long series of dissolute do - nothings had revelled in her banqueting halls , and fondled concubines in her seraglios , until at last the most dissolute of ...
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