Assyrians

But when they saw a large number of Assyrian troops drawn up and their cavalry standing still, the Medes also came to a halt.

for the two garrisons were there together and he himself had come with a large force of cavalry and infantry.

But when Cyrus was about fifteen or sixteen years old, the son of the Assyrian king, on the eve of his marriage, desired in person to get the game for that occasion.

At its head stood the prophets of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans among the Assyrians, the Druids among the Galatians, the Samanaeans among the Bactrians, the philosophers of the Celts, and the Magi of the Persians (who by their magic foretold the birth of the Saviour, coming into the land of Judaea led by a star), and among the Indians the gymnosophists, and other barbarian philosophers besides.

And yet another nation, the Cappadocians, first found the so-called nabla, as the Assyrians did the two-stringed instrument.

in whose fifteenth year Israel was led away to Babylon, and Salmanasar, the king of the Assyrians, removed those in Samaria to the Medes and to Babylon.

After the Assyrians had ruled Upper Asia for five hundred and twenty years, the Medes were the first who began to revolt from them.

and they took Ninus (how, I will describe in a later part of my history), and brought all Assyria except the province of Babylon under their rule.

that is, against those of the Assyrians who held Ninus.

the Assyrians too have taught you much;

It would be much work to go through all who have perished through luxury — the Lydians of old, the Medes, the Assyrians before them, last of all the Macedonians;

The Assyrians named themselves in relation to their gods, as “Taghlātnīn,” the servant of the god Tinīn, and “Mutāghil Nabū,” the worshipper of Nabū.

This holds of the Arabs in particular, because of their central position among the ancient heathen nations;

A kingdom all nations have had, each in its own times, as the Assyrians, as the Medes, as the Persians, as the Egyptians;

From the Assyrians, if anywhere, the histories of the age lie open.

we find them all in a state of the most complete subjection to central authority.