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which had existed within this period, beyond it, or to fabricate lives of the same 

 kind, in order to fill up their account of times that were utterly unknown to them. 

 These writers distinguish the families that ruled over Persia, previously to the 

 Arabian conquest, into four dynasties; — the Pishdadians, the Kaianians, the 

 Ashkanians, and the Sassanians ; — of which the second was terminated by the 

 Macedonian conquest. I here subjoin the Kaianian race, as also the Median and 

 Persian dynasties of the Greek historians to which it is supposed to correspond. 



PEKSIAN LIST. 



Kaikobad. 

 Kaikaus. 



Kaikhosrou. 



Lohorasb. 



Kishtasb. 



Ardeshir or Bahaman. 



Queen Homai. 

 Darab I. 



Darab II. 

 Eskander. 



GREEK LIST. 



Dejoces. 



Phraortes. 



Cyaxares I. 



Astyages. 



Cyaxares II. 



Cyrus. 



Cambyses. 



Darius. 



Xerxes. 



Artaxerxes. 



Darius Nothus. 



Artaxerxes Memnon. 



Ochus. 



Darius Codomannus. 



Alexander. 



The names in the two lists which are fancifully assumed to belong to the 

 same individuals, are here placed respectively on the same lines ; but in point of 

 fact there is not the remotest resemblance in the histories of the persons, thus 

 compared, until we come down to the very last name upon each list. And how 

 very little congruity there is even here, will be seen from the following abstract 

 of the concluding part of the Persian account of the Kaianian dynasty ; which I take 

 from the Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern 



