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In Datis, the Mede, brother to the most renowned of the Magi, you behold a warrior worthy to assist the arms even of Pausanias." "I greet ye in our Spartan phrase, 'The beautiful to the good," said Pausanias, regarding the Barbarians with an earnest gaze.
It was not really left for Cyaxares the Mede to be the first to organize an Asiatic army to divide the troops into companies and form distinct bodies of the spearmen, the archers, and the cavalry.
But if we had copied others, and allowed fears for our territory to make us give in our adhesion to the Mede before you came, or if we had suffered our ruin to break our spirit and prevent us embarking in our ships, your naval inferiority would have made a sea-fight unnecessary, and his objects would have been peaceably attained.
These powers included Babylon also, and accordingly, if our surmise that the Mede was then the overlord of Nebuchadnezzar be correct, this statement of Eusebius, for what it is worth, does not imply that Cilicia had attained an imperial position. Doubtless of the four "powers," she ranked lowest.
But the sequel was unexpected, for Cyaxares, son of the slain Mede, stubbornly continued the conflict, patiently reorganising his army, until he won a great victory over the Assyrian generals, and shut up the remnant of their forces in Nineveh. Assurbanipal, after a reign of forty-two years, died about 625 B.C., and was succeeded by his son, Assuretililani.
Their handwriting is yet upon their walls! A restless and various people overrunning the whole of Greece, found northward in Dacia, Illyria, and the country of the Getae, colonizing the coasts of Ionia, and long the master-race of the fairest lands of Italy, they have passed away amid the revolutions of the elder earth, their ancestry and their descendants alike unknown; yet not indeed the last, if my conclusions are rightly drawn: if the primitive population of Greece themselves Greek founding the language, and kindred with the blood, of the later and more illustrious Hellenes they still made the great bulk of the people in the various states, and through their most dazzling age: Enslaved in Laconia but free in Athens it was their posterity that fought the Mede at Marathon and Plataea, whom Miltiades led, for whom Solon legislated, for whom Plato thought, whom Demosthenes harangued.
"Sacrifice a cock to the Fates, then." "But why, think you," asked one of the Helots, "that we shall be so soon summoned back to Laconia?" "Because while ye are drinking and idling here drones that ye are there is commotion in the Athenian bee-hive yonder. Know that Ariamanes the Persian and Datis the Mede have escaped.
Darius, the Mede, to whom Biblical authority awards the succession of the kingdom of the vanquished and slain Belshazzar, was removed by almost a thousand years from the world which had known the gentle King, the youthful Pharaoh, who loved not war, and whose God was the Prince of Peace. As compared to Michael's beloved Akhnaton Belshazzar was a mere modern.
He was a Mede, and he had been Cyrus's particular friend and playmate when he was a boy, visiting his grandfather in Media. The reader will perhaps recollect that he is mentioned toward the close of our account of that visit, as the special favorite to whom Cyrus presented his robe or mantle when he took leave of his friends in returning to his native land.
The embassy, it seems, was prompted not by a desire to obstruct, but to guide the counsels of their government: besides, Spartan feeling was at that time very friendly towards Athens on account of the patriotism which she had displayed in the struggle with the Mede. Still the defeat of their wishes could not but cause them secret annoyance. The envoys of each state departed home without complaint.
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