ANCIENT HISTORV. 



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from the yoke of the Afiyrians. Their firft king 

 was Arbaces. The epoch of their grandeur was 

 in the reign of their feventh king, Cyaxares, 

 who conquered, in conjunction with Nebuchad- 

 nezzar, the city of Nineve. Afiifte d by the Per- 

 fians, they alfo took, during the fame king's 

 reign, the city of Babylon ; and laftly, Aftyages 

 (the Balthazar of the prophet Daniel) became 

 pofiefied of the whole empire. 



XI. 13. Thehiftoryof thePerfians, orElamites; 

 who owed their origin to Elam, the fon of Sem. 

 The firft king, of whom there is mention made 

 in the fcripture, was Kedorlaomer. Cyrus, the 

 founder of the new empire of the Perfians, made 

 himfelf mailer at the lame time of thofe of the 

 Medes and Babylonians. Their lait king, Da- 

 rius, furnamed Codomanus, was vanquifhed by 

 Alexander. 



14. The hiftory of the Scythians, or Chome- 

 reans, who were alfo called Cimbri, or Celts, 

 and were defcended from Gomar, the eldeft fon 

 of Japhct. Their firft king was Scythes, a pre- 

 tended fon of Hercules ; and their laft Atheas, 

 who was conquered by Philip, king of Ma- 

 cedon. 



. The hiftory of the Phrygians, who arc 

 to be defcended from Thop;arme, the fon of 

 Gomar. Midas was one of their rnoft ancient 

 kings-, he reigned foon after the delude of Deu- 

 calion. After t: L pf Adr.i.ais, who 1 

 ^ rcelus, the royal huufe 

 la became a province c 



16. The 



