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The Scythians, then, ruled Asia (continent) Asia for twenty-eight years: and the whole land was ruined because of their violence and their pride, for, besides exacting from each the tribute which was assessed, they rode about the land carrying off everyone's possessions.
The Scythians, then, ruled Asia (continent) Asia for twenty-eight years: and the whole land was ruined because of their violence and their pride, for, besides exacting from each the tribute which was assessed, they rode about the land carrying off everyone's possessions.
[2] Most of them were entertained and made drunk and then slain by
Cyaxares and the
Medes: so thus the
Medes took back their empire and all that they had formerly possessed; and they took
Nineveh (deserted settlement), Ninawa, Iraq, Asia
Ninus
(how, I will describe in a later part of my history), and brought all
Assyria except the province of
Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia
Babylon
under their rule.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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