Medes

and this Mandane was the daughter of Astyages, sometime king of the Medes.

Why, do you not see, he went on, that he has taught all the Medes to have less than himself?

For he has made himself master of everything in Media, but in Persia equality of rights is considered justice.

So when the Lydians and Medes saw the day turned to night, they stopped fighting, and both were the more eager to make peace.

After this, since Alyattes would not give up the Scythians to Cyaxares at his demand, there was war between the Lydians and the Medes for five years;

They were still warring with equal success, when it happened, at an encounter which occurred in the sixth year, that during the battle the day was suddenly turned to night.

They wished also to show how powerful their city was;

And in this way they labour, with toils and dangers, all their life long;

The Lacedaemonians, perceiving what they were about to do, sent an embassy [to them];

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;

I say, then, that there is no benefit to these light-armed men, not even if they become peltasts, toward justice and true temperance and prudence, not even if they strip still more and run about naked in winter or take the dress of the Medes and Arabs, just as they will not be able to play the flute by putting on the dress of flute-players.

And I most marvel, when I often reflect, that the Medes, having taken the goods of the Syrians, were content and rejoiced;

Far off by Strymon’s flood, fought with the sons of the Medes.

There were certain men in those days, fellow citizens, who endured much toil and underwent great dangers at the river Strymon, and conquered the Medes in battle.

and that man who assessed the tribute of the Greeks, and whose daughters our people dowered after his death, Aristeides, expressing his indignation at this mockery of justice, and asking you if you are not ashamed that whereas, when Arthmius of Zeleia transported the gold of the Medes into Hellas, although he had once resided in our city, and was proxenus of the Athenian people, your fathers were …

in whose fifteenth year Israel was led away to Babylon, and Salmanasar, the king of the Assyrians, removed those in Samaria to the Medes and to Babylon.

Besides these, Apollo, the most oracular, witnessing to the glory of God, is constrained to speak concerning Athena, at the time when the Medes were marching against Hellas, how she besought and supplicated Zeus on behalf of Attica.

Dinon says that these sacrifice in the open air, reckoning fire and water alone as the statues of the gods.

On the same point, Justin maintains a discussion, whether those states, which had been tributary to the Medes, were upon a change of government, released from their obligations.

Nay, of those who lived later, perhaps indeed of all, the one hero who was most admired by the greatest number was Cyrus, who deprived the Medes of their kingdom and gained it for the Persians.

From Salamis I will win as my reward the gratitude of the Athenians, and in Sparta from the battles before Cithaeron —those battles in which the Medes with their curved bows suffered sorely;

A kingdom all nations have had, each in its own times, as the Assyrians, as the Medes, as the Persians, as the Egyptians;

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.

In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …

its name was Larisa, and it was inhabited in ancient times by the Medes.

The name of this city was Mespila, and it was once inhabited by the Medes.

Here, as the story goes, Medea, the king’s wife, took refuge at the time when the Medes were deprived of their empire by the Persians.

So this year ended, being the year in which the Medes, who had revolted from Darius, king of the Persians, were again reduced to subjection.