Babylonians
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the Babylonians · all Babylon · men of Babylon · the Babylonian · the kingdom of the Chaldeans
in the texts
The Histories
People of Babylon, allied to Croesus under their ruler Labynetus, whom he intends to summon against Persia.
(for before making an alliance with the Lacedaemonians he had made one also with Amasis king of Egypt), and to send for the Babylonians also (for with these too he had made an alliance, Labynetus at this time being their sovereign), and to summon the Lacedaemonians to join him at a fixed time.
so now they were indifferent to the siege;
I will now speak of their established customs.
Orations
People of Babylon, cited as example that a great wall does not confer happiness.
but nonetheless no one would say the Byzantines were happy on account of the fish, unless the gulls too, nor the Egyptians on account of the Nile, nor the Babylonians on account of the wall.
Except that, by giving little worthless stones and, by Zeus, the bones of wild beasts, they receive silver and gold, exchanging useless things for useful ones.
Do you reflect that all these peoples—I mean the Celts and Indians and Iberians and Arabs and Babylonians—receive tribute from us, not for their land or their flocks, but for our folly?
Protrepticus
People credited as the source of Plato's astronomy.
geometry you learn from the Egyptians, astronomy from the Babylonians, the wholesome incantations you take from the Thracians;
Stromata
People named as a possible ultimate source of teaching.
and if you say Egyptians or Indians or Babylonians or the Magi themselves, I shall not cease asking for their teacher.
The Rights of War and Peace
The Babylonians, to whom the Hebrews were scripturally urged to surrender.
Therefore he admonishes the Hebrews, by the mouth of his prophet, to surrender to the Babylonians, rather than to die by pestilence and famine.
Adversus Judaeos
The people/kingdom of Babylon (Chaldea), ruled by Darius, cited as an example of bounded dominion.
And if Darius reigned over the Babylonians and the Parthians, he did not have power over all the nations;
In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, I, Daniel, understood in the books the number of the years.
Law in a Free State
Ancient people cited as an example of complete subjection to central authority.
we find them all in a state of the most complete subjection to central authority.
Cyropaedia
Population of Babylon transformed from confident defenders into disarmed tributary subjects.
He furthermore ordered the heralds to make proclamation that all Babylonians deliver up their arms;
Next he distributed the private houses and official residences among those whom he considered to have had a share in what had been achieved;
He ordered the Babylonians, moreover, to go on tilling their lands, to pay their tribute, and to serve those to whom they had severally been assigned;