Chaldaeans

The Chaldaeans were said to be an independent and valiant people;

The Carduchians, for example, and the Taochians and Chaldaeans were not subjects of the King and were exceedingly formidable, yet, even so, we made enemies of them because of this necessity of taking provisions, inasmuch as they would not provide a market.

but there were some of the Chaldaeans, so they said, who lived by plundering and would not know how to farm and could not, for they were used to making their living by the business of war;

and then he departed, taking with him not only the army which he had brought with him but also the reinforcements that he had received from the Armenians, and about four thousand Chaldaeans, who considered themselves actually better than all the rest put together.

Now the Chaldaeans carried each a wicker shield and two spears, and they were said to be the most warlike of the peoples in that region.

At this point Chrysippus, in his anxiety, hopes that the Chaldaeans and the other diviners may be mistaken, and that they will not use connected propositions in stating their perceptions thus:

’ There are many kinds of statement, and none more twisted than this, in which Chrysippus hopes the Chaldaeans will be content for the sake of the Stoics.

Yet none of them speaks so;

In the Babylonian temple there is another shrine below, where there is a great golden image of Zeus, sitting at a great golden table, and the footstool and the chair are also gold;

These same Chaldaeans say (though I do not believe them) that the god himself is accustomed to visit the shrine and rest on the couch, as in Thebes of Egypt, as the Egyptians say

But no image has been set up in the shrine, nor does any human creature lie there for the night, except one native woman, chosen from all women by the god, as the Chaldaeans say, who are priests of this god.

The Scythians overflow the Persians, the Phoenicians belch forth into Africa, the Phrygians bring forth the Romans, the Chaldaean seed is brought up into Egypt;