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Show The third Bookeofthe faskpart\ Cuanz.g.4. as - CwarageGil.2. toxXenxophon.who affirineth,That Carsbyfes the father of Cyn was) King of Perfia; than tothofe that make him:ameane man,andfay, thar 4fyages gaue bim hisdaughter Man ‘fileHiredead, Crap, II]. dane in marriage, tothe endthat herfon (whofe natiuity hee feared) might bedifabled af ; from any great vadertaking by hisfathers ignobility. For what-caufe ofgriefe could it beto Aftyages, that the {onneofhis daughterthould become Lordofthe beft part of Afiar No,it was more likely, that vponfirch a Prophecie his louete his'grand-childe fhould have encreafed, and his care been' the greater to haue married hertofome Princeof ftrengthandeminentvertue, Yea, the fame Heredotns , who.isthe firt Authour, andas I thinke the deuifer of the mifchiefe intended againft eyrus by his Grandfather ,, doth confeffe,That the tine 19 of the Achemenide was fo renowned , that the great King) Xerxes in. the height of Of Cyrus bis name,andfirft actions; S,touching the name of Cyrus,Strabo faith,T hat the fame was ta- Strabl. 15 ken froma riuer which watereth Perfia,this great Prince hauing Agradatas for his proper name. But thé great Cyrus was not the firft ofthat name. Herédotus otherwife ;and that Cyrus fignifieth his profperity did thence deriue-himfelfe, and -vaunt of it: which hee:would neuer haue done, had they beerie ignoble, or had they beene the vaflals of anyotherKing or : : Monarch. For inthis fort Yerxesin the feuenth of Herodotus deriueth himfelfe. Son Cambyfes. Cyrus. Src Ariarawmnes. Arfamnes, }| 2 fatlier in the Perfian Tongue, and thereforefo intituled by the people, Spi Itis true that forhis Iuftice and otherexcellent vertues'he was! Daria, Aerxes. § 20 Ofthe Achamenide there were tworaces : of the firft was Cyrms the great, whofe iffte ‘ 26. by the learned Resmeccins. Annvintedorc, s Before the Conqueft ofBabylon,the viGories which Cyrss obtained were many and Athemenes;chéfonneofPeres, firkt King of Perfia. gieat :among which,the Conqueft of Lydia, & other Prouincesthereto fubiett, togetherwith the taking ofCre/ws himfelfe, are not recounted by Exfebius, Orofius, and o- : Cyrusthe firfkofthatname,had Camby/es and Atofa;who married to Pharnaces,King ofCappadocia,had rtyfows and other daughters. Cambsfes had : Cyrus the Great: Cyras had Plutarchhathathird opinion,affirming, That Cyras isas,much to fay-as the Sunne; Plitinvin, inthefame Languages Howfoeuerit be, yet the Prophet E/ay, almoft two hundred: artan. yearts before Cyras was borrie, giues himthatname, Thus faith the Lord unto Cyrus bis male failed in his two fonnes, Cambyfes and Smerdé.This royall familyis thus fet down Darizs. indeedcalled a Father; but that the name of Cyrus had any‘fuch «fignification,I thinke it bemiftaken, thets, but placed aiiong his latter‘atchiuements ¥ whofe opinion for this difference of timeis founded vpon'tworeafons ; namely,That of the Mediathere isno mention in fe 38 Cambyfeswho fucceeded him,and Smerdis flaine by his brother camby/es. that laftiwarre againft Cre/as : and that the obtaining of Sardis is referred tothe cight & 30fiftiech Olympiad, ‘andthe glorious vittory whichCyrus had ouer Babylon, to the fiue and fiftietly Olympiad. Theformer of which might haue bin vfed (and was by ‘the Greekes)to exchide thé Medes fromthe honor of hauing wonBabylon it felf,whichif dueplace I haue anfwe= red. Thelatter feems to haue referenceto the fecottd War which Cyrus madé vpon Ly Ofthelecond werethofe feuen great Princes of Perfia, who hauing onerthrowne the vfurped ‘royalty ofthe a¢agi,chofe from among themfelues Darias,the fonneof HjfrafpesKine. bei dia,whenit rebelled sat which time hefo eftablithed his former Conqueft,as after that This Kingdomeof Perfia was firft known by the name of Elam, focalledafter Em the fonneofSem,and the people thereininhabiting, E/amite's byElianus,Elyme sby fe pbuielymils | EuftécB.de, Swidasderiuesthis Nation fometimes from 4/wr,fometime from Magog, of vor Prepkuang- they wete called Magufziwhich Magu/ei,according to Ewfebiusare not to bee taken ee the Nation in generallbut forthofe who were afterwardcalled the a¢agi or Wile ve So dothe Greeks,among manyothertheir fa ings of them; affirme, That the oe Gen.10. wereahciently written Artzi,8¢ that they called themfeluesCephenes But that thcy 4s a Bias es tat, Elamita;atofesand the Prophets;E/2y, Jeremy, Exechiel, Daniel and Efdras in many r Evech3x, CONfitmMe? Which alfo'S.Hiereme vpon Jeremy the fiue and twentieth, vpon Da" per eight,andalfoin his Hebrew queftions,approuerh, faying : Elam a quo Elamite Pree Perfidiss Elam,ofwhom were the Elamites Princes ofPer(ia. sits 2sAndthat City whichthe Authorofthe fecond booke ofthe Maccabees calleth oa polis, isbythe Author ofthefirft called Elimais, but is nowcalled siras, being the fam¢ which 4eriechas,forthe great riches thereof,twice attempted in vaine, and to ee difhonGulAnd-yer this Citynow called siras,was notthe old Perfepolis; for Alexan™ attherequelt of Thaisthe Harlot,burnt it. : The firktKing of Pebfiato ys known, ifwe followthe current ofAuthorsinte the fourcteenth chapterofe.enefis\was Chedorlzomer,who liued with Amraphe and ioynediwith himinthe war againft chofe Arabians;who wasafterward ¢x edby the fotcesof Abrabams, CHAF. time thefe Nations neueroffered to revolt.Wherefore like better in this patticulafto beleewe with #eredotus,whom the moft ofChronologers follow, andfinde the enter- Prife of Sardis to precede that ofBabylon. 40 ‘bb Of Croefus the King ofLydia,who made warre vpon Cyrus. : Haue in the laft Booke {poken fomewhat of Crefi, of his race and predeceflors,as allo of thofe Kings which gouerned Lydia inmore ancient times: of whichthefirt *o prophane Authors knowne) was Lyawusthe fonneofAtys: Which Familyextinguithed, the Kingdome was by an Oracle conferred vpon Argon, defcended from Her- ewlet,Whereofthere were two and twenty generations, Candawles beingthe laft, who bythewing his faire Wife naked to-Gyges his Fauorite,he was by the fame Gyges(thereto Vrged vpon peril ofhis owne life bythe Queene) the next dayflaine. Which done, Gyjoe%cnioyed boththe Queen and the Kingdome ofLydia, andleftthe fameto 4rys his 40a,Who wasfather to Sadyattesthe fatherof Halyattes(who thruft the Cimmerians out of Afia) & Halyattes begat Crafus: Whichfine Kings, ofa third race,enioyedthat king-pey022,; Pring an hundred and {eauenty years: Halyattes the father of Crafus was an vndertakinig 4 palligtes, after he had continued awarre againft Cyaxares the Median 3 a I rince ve ty re sand maintairied itfixe years ; a peace was concluded ypon equall conditions . "sweenthem, nowrciethe fon of Cyaxares,and grandfatherto Cyrus, thought himfelfe greatly honseg obtaining AryenesCrafus {itter,whombhe married, tkk 3 2 But |