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"When he had thus prophesied, he expired: and was succeeded by his son [[Evilmaluruchus]], who was slain by his kinsman [[Neriglisares]]: and Neriglisares left [[Labassoarascus]] his son: and when he also had suffered death by violence, they made Nabannidochus king, being no relation to the royal race; and in his reign [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] took [[Babylon]], and granted him a principality in [[Carmania]].

"When he had thus prophesied, he expired: and was succeeded by his son [[Evilmaluruchus]], who was slain by his kinsman [[Neriglisares]]: and Neriglisares left [[Labassoarascus]] his son: and when he also had suffered death by violence, they made Nabannidochus king, being no relation to the royal race; and in his reign [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] took [[Babylon]], and granted him a principality in [[Carmania]].

"As concerning the rebuilding of [[Babylon]] by [[Nabuchodonosor]], he writes thus: It is said that from the beginning of all things where water, called the sea {Thalatth?): that [[Belus]] caused this state of things to cease, and appointed to each its proper place" and he surrounded [[Babylon]] with a wall: but in process of time this wall disappeared: and [[Nabuchodonosor walled it again, and it remained so with its brazen gates until the time of Macedonian conquest.  And after other things he says: [[Nabuchodonosor]] having succeeded to the kingdom, built the walls of Babylon in a triple circuit in fifteen days; and he turned the river [[Armacale]], a branch of the [[Euphrates]] and [[Acracanus]]: and above the city of [[Sippara]] he dug a receptacle for the waters, whose perimeter was forty parasangs, and whose depth was twenty cubits; and he placed gates at the entrance thereof, by opening which they irrigated the plains, and these they call Echetognomones (sluices:) and he constructed dykes against the irruptions of the [[Erythrean sea]], and built the city of [[Teredon]] against the incursions of the Arabs; and he adorned the palace with trees, calling them [[hanging gardens]].

"As concerning the rebuilding of [[Babylon]] by [[Nabuchodonosor]], he writes thus: It is said that from the beginning of all things where water, called the sea (Thalatth?): that [[Belus]] caused this state of things to cease, and appointed to each its proper place" and he surrounded [[Babylon]] with a wall: but in process of time this wall disappeared: and [[Nabuchodonosor]] walled it again, and it remained so with its brazen gates until the time of Macedonian conquest.  And after other things he says: [[Nabuchodonosor]] having succeeded to the kingdom, built the walls of Babylon in a triple circuit in fifteen days; and he turned the river [[Armacale]], a branch of the [[Euphrates]] and [[Acracanus]]: and above the city of [[Sippara]] he dug a receptacle for the waters, whose perimeter was forty parasangs, and whose depth was twenty cubits; and he placed gates at the entrance thereof, by opening which they irrigated the plains, and these they call Echetognomones (sluices:) and he constructed dykes against the irruptions of the [[Erythrean sea]], and built the city of [[Teredon]] against the incursions of the Arabs; and he adorned the palace with trees, calling them [[Hanging Gardens of Babylon|hanging gardens]].

 

=Observations from the reading=

=Observations from the reading=