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but, in the midff of the engagement, whilft the 
fortune of the day feem’d to hang in an equal balance, 
there happened a total eclipfe of the fun, which over- 
fpread both armies with a horrible darknefs ; info- 
much that, being affrighted at fuch a critical judg- 
ment of heaven (as they thought it), both Tides put 
up their fwords j and they agreed to refer the con- 
troverfy between them to two arbitrators. Halyattes, 
king of Lydia, chofe Siennefis, king of Cilicia ; Cy- 
axares, the Median monarch, chofe Nebuchadnezzar, 
now bufy in leading the Jews into captivity. 
Nebuchadnezzar is by Herodotus called Libynetus. 
It feems to me, that the letter N, in the beginning 
of the word, has, in the antient copies of Herodotus, 
been turned into A ; and then the words, in two 
different dialects, are not very different. 
Thefe great arbitrators compromifed the matter be- 
tween the contending parties, by making a match 
between the two royal families ; and fo reftor’d peace 
and friendfhip. Allyages, the fon of Cyaxares, king 
of Media, married Ariena, daughter of Halyattes, 
king of Lydia, of whom, a year after, was born 
Cyaxares, whom the prophet Daniel calls Darius the 
Mede. And in that laft mention’d year, king Cyax- 
ares gave his daughter Mandane in marriage to Cam-- 
byfes king of Perfia ; of whom, the next year, was 
boin the great Cyrus, the founder of the Perfian mon- 
archy, whom the prophet Ifaiah foretold by name, 
that he fhould reftore the polity of the Jews, the city 
of Jerufalem, and the temple, and return the facred 
veflels of gold and filver, which Nebuchadnezzar 
had carried away, and put into his heathen temple at 
Babylon. 
Thus 
