Chaldaeans
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Chaldeans · the Chaldaeans · Chaldaean mercenaries · Chaldaean seed · diviners
in the texts
Anabasis
Independent and valiant mercenaries armed with long wicker shields and lances.
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.
Cyropaedia
Mountain people neighboring Armenia who raid Armenian lands, negotiate peace, and supply fighters to Cyrus.
Poor man!
The Chaldaeans assented.
Here the Armenian king interrupted:
On Fate
Babylonian astrologers/diviners whose predictive formulas about birth-star correlations are examined for logical consistency.
Yet none of them speaks so;
’ 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.
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:
The Histories
Priestly caste of Bel's temple in Babylon, source of Herodotus's information about the shrine and its treasures.
Outside the temple is a golden altar.
Such is the furniture of this temple, and there are many private offerings besides.
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
De Pallio
People cited as migrating into Egypt.
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;