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==FROM ABYDENUS==

==FROM ABYDENUS==

===Of the Chaldean Kings and the Deluge===

===Of the Chaldean Kings and the Deluge===

"So much concerning the wisdom of the Chaldeans.<br />"It is said that the first king of the country was Alorus<ref>Alorus is identifed as being [[Nimrod]]<br />Hislop, Alexander, ''The Two Babylons'', p.72</ref>, who gave out a report that he was appointed by God to be Shepherd of the people: he reigned ten sari: no a sarus is esteemed to be three thousand six hundred years; a neros six hundred; and a sossus sixty.<br />"After him Alaparus reigned three sari: to him succeeded Amillarus from the city of Pantibiblon, who reigned thirteen sari; in his time a semidemon called Annedotus, very like Oannes, came up a second time from the sea: after him Ammenon reigned twelve sari, who was of the city of Pantibiblon: then Megalarus of the same place eighteen sari: then Daos, the shepherd, governed for the space of ten sari; he was of Pantibiblon; in his time four double-shaped personages came out of the sea to land, whose names wre Euedocus, Eneugamus, Eneuboulus, and Anementus: after these things was Anodaphus, in the time of Euedoreschus.  These were afterwards other kings, and last of all Sisithrus: so that in the whole, the number amounted to ten kings, and the term of their reigns to an hundred and twenty sari.  (And among other things not irrelative to the subject, he continues thus concerning the deluge:)  After Euedoreschus some others reigned, and then Sisithrus.  To him the deity Crous foretold that on the fifteenth day of the month Desius there would be a deluge, and commanded him to deposit all the writings whatever that he had, in the city of the Sun in Sippara.  Sisithrus, when he had complied with these commands, instantly sailed to Armenia, and was immediately inspired by God.  During the prevalence of the waters Sisithrus sent out birds, that he might judge if the flood had subsided.  But the birds passing over an unbounded sea, and not finding any place of rest, returned again to Sisithrus.  This he repeated.  And when upond the third trial he succeeded, for they then returned with their feet staind with mud, the gods translated him from among men.  With respect to the vessel, which yet remains in Armenia, it is a custom of the inhabitants to form bracelets and amulets of its wood."

"So much concerning the wisdom of the Chaldeans.<br />"It is said that the first king of the country was Alorus,<ref>Alorus is identifed as being [[Nimrod]]<br />Hislop, Alexander, ''The Two Babylons'', p.72</ref> who gave out a report that he was appointed by God to be Shepherd of the people: he reigned ten sari: no a sarus is esteemed to be three thousand six hundred years; a neros six hundred; and a sossus sixty.<br />"After him Alaparus reigned three sari: to him succeeded Amillarus from the city of Pantibiblon, who reigned thirteen sari; in his time a semidemon called Annedotus, very like Oannes, came up a second time from the sea: after him Ammenon reigned twelve sari, who was of the city of Pantibiblon: then Megalarus of the same place eighteen sari: then Daos, the shepherd, governed for the space of ten sari; he was of Pantibiblon; in his time four double-shaped personages came out of the sea to land, whose names wre Euedocus, Eneugamus, Eneuboulus, and Anementus: after these things was Anodaphus, in the time of Euedoreschus.  These were afterwards other kings, and last of all Sisithrus: so that in the whole, the number amounted to ten kings, and the term of their reigns to an hundred and twenty sari.  (And among other things not irrelative to the subject, he continues thus concerning the deluge:)  After Euedoreschus some others reigned, and then Sisithrus.  To him the deity Crous foretold that on the fifteenth day of the month Desius there would be a deluge, and commanded him to deposit all the writings whatever that he had, in the city of the Sun in Sippara.  Sisithrus, when he had complied with these commands, instantly sailed to Armenia, and was immediately inspired by God.  During the prevalence of the waters Sisithrus sent out birds, that he might judge if the flood had subsided.  But the birds passing over an unbounded sea, and not finding any place of rest, returned again to Sisithrus.  This he repeated.  And when upond the third trial he succeeded, for they then returned with their feet staind with mud, the gods translated him from among men.  With respect to the vessel, which yet remains in Armenia, it is a custom of the inhabitants to form bracelets and amulets of its wood."

===Of the Tower of Babel===

===Of the Tower of Babel===

"When [[Nabopollasar]] his ([[Nabuchodonosor|Nabuchodonosor's]]) father, heard that the governor, whom he had set over [[Egypt]], and the parts of [[Coelesyria]] and [[Phoenicia]], had revolted, he was unable to put up with his delinquencies any longer, but committed certain parts of his army to his son [[Nabuchodonosor]], who was then but young, and sent him against the rebel: and [[Nabuchodonosor]] fought with him, and conquered him, and reduced the country again under his dominion.  And it happened that his father, [[Nabopollasar]] fell into a distemper at this time, and died in the city of [[Babylon]], after he had reigned twenty-nine years.

"When [[Nabopollasar]] his ([[Nabuchodonosor|Nabuchodonosor's]]) father, heard that the governor, whom he had set over [[Egypt]], and the parts of [[Coelesyria]] and [[Phoenicia]], had revolted, he was unable to put up with his delinquencies any longer, but committed certain parts of his army to his son [[Nabuchodonosor]], who was then but young, and sent him against the rebel: and [[Nabuchodonosor]] fought with him, and conquered him, and reduced the country again under his dominion.  And it happened that his father, [[Nabopollasar]] fell into a distemper at this time, and died in the city of [[Babylon]], after he had reigned twenty-nine years.

"After a short time [[Nabuchodonosor]], receiving the intelligence of his father's death, set the affairs of [[Egypt]] and the other countries, in order and committed the the captives he had taken from the Jews, and [[Phoenicians]], and [[Syrians]], and of the nations belonging to [[Egypt]], to some of his friends, that they might conduct that part of the forces that had on heavy armour, with the rest of his baggage, to Babylonia; where, when he was come, he found that affairs had been well conducted by the [[Chaldeans]], and that the principal person among them had preserved the kingdom from him: accordingly he now obtained possession of all his father's dominions.  And he ordered the captives to be distributed in colonies in the most proper places of Babylonia: and adorned the [[Tower of Babel|temple]] of [[Belus (god)|Belus]], and the other temples, in a sumptuous and pious manner, out of the spoils he had taken in this war.  He also rebuilt the old city, and added other to it on the outside, and so far restored Babylon, that none, who should besiege it afterwards, might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it: and this he did by building three wals about the inner city, and three about the outer.  Some of these walls he built out of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only.  When he had thus admirably fortified the city with walls, and had magnificently adorned the gates, he added also a new palace to those in which his forefathers had dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height, and in its great splendor.  It would perhaps require too long a narration, if any one were to describe it: however, as prodigiously large and magnificent as it was, it was finished in fifteen days.  In this palace he erected very high walks, supported by stone pillars; and by planting what was called a pensile paradise, and replenishing it with all sorts of trees, he rendered the prospect an exact resemblance of a mountainous country.  This he did to please his queen, because she had been brought up in Media, and was fond of a mountainous situation."

"After a short time [[Nabuchodonosor]], receiving the intelligence of his father's death, set the affairs of [[Egypt]] and the other countries, in order and committed the captives he had taken from the Jews, and [[Phoenicians]], and [[Syrians]], and of the nations belonging to [[Egypt]], to some of his friends, that they might conduct that part of the forces that had on heavy armour, with the rest of his baggage, to Babylonia; where, when he was come, he found that affairs had been well conducted by the [[Chaldeans]], and that the principal person among them had preserved the kingdom from him: accordingly he now obtained possession of all his father's dominions.  And he ordered the captives to be distributed in colonies in the most proper places of Babylonia: and adorned the [[Tower of Babel|temple]] of [[Belus (god)|Belus]], and the other temples, in a sumptuous and pious manner, out of the spoils he had taken in this war.  He also rebuilt the old city, and added other to it on the outside, and so far restored Babylon, that none, who should besiege it afterwards, might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it: and this he did by building three wals about the inner city, and three about the outer.  Some of these walls he built out of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only.  When he had thus admirably fortified the city with walls, and had magnificently adorned the gates, he added also a new palace to those in which his forefathers had dwelt, adjoining them, but exceeding them in height, and in its great splendor.  It would perhaps require too long a narration, if any one were to describe it: however, as prodigiously large and magnificent as it was, it was finished in fifteen days.  In this palace he erected very high walks, supported by stone pillars; and by planting what was called a pensile paradise, and replenishing it with all sorts of trees, he rendered the prospect an exact resemblance of a mountainous country.  This he did to please his queen, because she had been brought up in Media, and was fond of a mountainous situation."

===of the Chaldean Kings after Nebuchadnezzar===

===of the Chaldean Kings after Nebuchadnezzar===

"His son [[Laborosoarchodus]] obtained the kingdom through he was but a child, and kept it nine months; but by reason of the evil practices he exhibited, a plot was laid against him by his friends, and he was tormented to death.

"His son [[Laborosoarchodus]] obtained the kingdom through he was but a child, and kept it nine months; but by reason of the evil practices he exhibited, a plot was laid against him by his friends, and he was tormented to death.

"After his death, the conspiritors assembled, and by common consent put the crown upon the head of [[Nabonnedus]], a man of [[Babylon]], and one of the leaders of that insurrection.  In his reign it was that the walls of the city of [[Babylon]] were curiously built with burnt brick and bitumen.

"After his death, the conspirators assembled, and by common consent put the crown upon the head of [[Nabonnedus]], a man of [[Babylon]], and one of the leaders of that insurrection.  In his reign it was that the walls of the city of [[Babylon]] were curiously built with burnt brick and bitumen.

"But in the seventeenth year of his reign, [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] came out of [[Persia]] with a great army, and having conquereed all the rest of Asia, he came hastily to [[Babylonia]].  When [[Nabonnedus]] perceived he was advancing to attack him, he assembled his forces and opposed him, but was defeated, and fled with a few of his attendants, and was shut up in the city [[Borsippus]].  Whereupon [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] took [[Babylon]], and gave orders that the outer walls should be demolished, because the city had proved very troublesome to him.and difficult to take.  He then marched to [[Borsippus]], to besiege [[Nabonnedus]]; but as [[Nabonnedus]] delivered himself into his hands without holding out the place, he was at first kindly treated by [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] who gave him an habitation in [[Carmania]], but sent him out of Babylonia.  Accordingly [[Nabonnedus]] spent the remainder of his time in that country, and there died.

"But in the seventeenth year of his reign, [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] came out of [[Persia]] with a great army, and having conquereed all the rest of Asia, he came hastily to [[Babylonia]].  When [[Nabonnedus]] perceived he was advancing to attack him, he assembled his forces and opposed him, but was defeated, and fled with a few of his attendants, and was shut up in the city [[Borsippus]].  Whereupon [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] took [[Babylon]], and gave orders that the outer walls should be demolished, because the city had proved very troublesome to him.and difficult to take.  He then marched to [[Borsippus]], to besiege [[Nabonnedus]]; but as [[Nabonnedus]] delivered himself into his hands without holding out the place, he was at first kindly treated by [[Cyrus II the Great|Cyrus]] who gave him an habitation in [[Carmania]], but sent him out of Babylonia.  Accordingly [[Nabonnedus]] spent the remainder of his time in that country, and there died.

===of the Feast of Sacea===

===of the Feast of Sacea===

Berossus, in the first book of his Babylonian history, says: That in the eleventh month, called Loos, is celebrated in Babylon the [[Feast of Sacea]] for five days; in which it is the custom that the masters should obey their domestics, one of whom is led round the house, clothed in a royal garment, and him they call Zoganes.

Berossus, in the first book of his Babylonian history, says: That in the eleventh month, called Loos, is celebrated in Babylon the [[Feast of Sacea]] for five days; in which it is the custom that the masters should obey their domestics, one of whom is led round the house, clothed in a royal garment, and him they call Zoganes.

[[Category:Biographies]]

[[Category:Biographies]]