Babylonians

(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.

The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life.

Whenever a Babylonian has had intercourse with his wife, they both sit before a burnt offering of incense, and at dawn they wash themselves;

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.

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?

Or are these things small, of no account, and easily come by for any chance person, while it is for a multitude of inhabitants, an abundant market, and the lavishness of its buildings that the city must be called blessed—and for the fabrics of the Seres and the Babylonians, and because they roof their houses with gold, and everything is full of silver and amber and ivory, just such things as Homer …

geometry you learn from the Egyptians, astronomy from the Babylonians, the wholesome incantations you take from the Thracians;

and if you say Egyptians or Indians or Babylonians or the Magi themselves, I shall not cease asking for their teacher.

Therefore he admonishes the Hebrews, by the mouth of his prophet, to surrender to the Babylonians, rather than to die by pestilence and famine.

So too the Babylonians, for they annex their names to their god “Bēl” or “Nabū,” saying “Bēl ibnī,” Bēl made me, and “Nabū naṣr,” that is, Nabū helps, and “ʻAbd Nabū,” that is, the servant of the god Nabū, and “Nabū Bālūzūr,” Nabū protects my son (2).

In our view it is Hebrew or Phoenician, its original being “Habaʻl” הבעל, which is the name of the greatest of the idols of the Phoenicians or the Canaanites and of those neighbouring them among the nations of Syria, such as the Moabites, the Midianites, the Babylonians and the Libyans.

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.

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

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;

He furthermore ordered the heralds to make proclamation that all Babylonians deliver up their arms;

And since he considered that all Babylon, too, stood in need of adequate protection, whether he himself happened to be at home or abroad, he stationed there also an adequate garrison, and he arranged that the Babylonians should furnish the money for their wages, for it was his aim that this people should be as destitute of resources as possible, so that they might be as submissive and as easily re …