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It was from these mountains that a chieftain came, in the five-fifties B.C., to over turn Astyages the Mede's sovereignty, and replace it with his own Achaemenian Persian; and to take Persianism out of mountain Fars, and spread it over all West Asia.
Too humble to mate with the Heracleid, I am too proud to stoop to the Tributary of the Mede." "Tributary for a sprinkling of water and a handful of earth. Well, my pride may revolt, too, from that tribute. But, alas! what is the tribute Sparta exacts from me now? personal liberty freedom of soul itself. The Mede's Tributary may be a king over millions; the Spartan Regent is a slave to the few."
Joseph Mede's 'Clavis Apocalyptica, published in 1627, and translated by Richard More in 1643, was as popular in the Pulpit as 'The Country Justice' on the Bench. The negotiations of Count d'Estrades were from 1637 to 1662. The translation of Bayle's Dictionary had been published by Tonson in 1610. Dr. William Wall's 'History of Infant Baptism, published in 1705, was in its third edition.
For those who, fighting on their country's side, Opposed th' imperial Mede's advancing tide, We, votaresses, to Cythera pray'd; Th' indulgent power vouchsafed her timely aid, And kept the citadel of Hellas free From rude assaults of Persia's archery. These things he should rather have written and recorded, than have inserted Aminocles's killing of his son.
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