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ever, it should be remembered, is the Grecian account of Cambyses, 

 who is very differently known to the Orientals both by name and 

 character. That name is LOHORASP, and that character, as before 

 observed, not cruel and tyrannical, but virtuous and amiable*. 

 The softer Greek name of Cambyses was probably derived from the 

 Persian KAMBAKSH, or granter of desires, one of the numerous 

 titles often assumed by the Persian sovereigns, in addition to their 

 patronymic name, on ascending the throne. For a similar reason, 

 doubtless, we find the same name bestowed by the Greeks on Siaveh, 

 the native appellation of the father of Cyrus. By Mirkhond he is 

 stated to have passed his long reign principally at Balk, in Khorasan, 

 imitating, in this respect, his predecessor, whose object was, by a 

 residence in that most eastern province of Iran, to overlook and 

 keep in awe, by his presence, his new subjects of Turkestan. Lo- 

 horasp, though thus himself remote from the storms of war, had a 

 general very celebrated in Asiatic annals, of the name of GUDERZ, 

 who is recorded to have pushed his conquests very far in the west, 

 and, ravaging all Syria, to have returned to his government of Baby- 

 lon loaded with the wealth of Palestine, whose capital, Jerusalem, 

 he sacked and plundered, and attended by innumerable captives. 

 This man, therefore, surnamed Bakht-Nassar by the Persians, must 

 have been the Nebuchadnezzar of sacred history ; and to him alone, 

 if the Persian records truly state that no intermediate monarch 

 reigned between Cyrus and Lohorasp, must be attributed all the 

 outrages in Egypt, supposed to have been committed by Cambyses. 

 The Persian histories make not the least mention of the usurpation 

 of Smerdis, the Magi, of the murder of that impostor by the seven 

 conspirators headed by Hystaspes, nor of the ingenious stratagem to 

 effect the neighing of the horse, at sun-rise, put in practice by the 



* Jones's Short History of Persia, p. 49. 



