Assyrians

Yes, they are enemies, too.

while as for us, the main body of our forces has not yet come.

Are those enemies, too, said Cyrus, who are riding up and down?

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

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 Juba, writing about the Assyrians, confesses that he took the history from Berossus, bearing witness to the man's truth.

He defeated the Assyrians in battle;

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

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

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;

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.