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Hist. vi. 26; the Greek translators of the Bible rendered the Hebrew term Khasdim by Chaldaioi; both forms seem to be derived from the same primitive word. STRABO, xvi. i. 1, 2, 3. LAYARD, Nineveh and its Remains, vol. i. pp. 312, 315; Discoveries, p. 245. RAWLINSON, Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 4, 5.
The expressions Khasdim and Chaldæi were used in the Bible and by classic authors mainly to denote the inhabitants of Babylon and its neighbourhood; and we find Strabo attaching with precision the name Aturia, which is nothing but a variant upon Assyria, to that district watered and bounded by the Tigris in which Nineveh was situated.
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