Syrians

But not so the Egyptians, nor the Syrians, nor almost any of the barbarians;

the Syrians worship a fish;

And he says this teaching and exhorting that good men ought to take care also of the table, since he was not inexperienced in food of every kind and in extravagance, so that the Persians and Syrians who are now agog over such things, and among the Greeks the Italiote Greeks and the Ionians, do not even come close to the abundance and luxury found in Homer.

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

And I marvel most of all, when I often consider, that the Medes were content and rejoiced when they took over the possessions of the Syrians, the Persians those of the Medes, and the Macedonians those of the Persians;

And again Cyrus ordered proclamation to be made that if there were any one from Media or Persia or Bactria or Caria or Greece or anywhere else forced into service as a slave in the army of the Assyrians or Syrians or Arabians, he should show himself.

Of the three forts of the Syrians there, Cyrus in person assaulted one, the weakest, and took it by storm;

nor the Syrians who inhabit Phoenicia, of whom some reverence doves, others fishes, with as extravagant a worship as the Eleans pay to Zeus.

" But some say the Phoenicians and the Syrians were the first to devise letters.

"All that has been said about nature by the ancients is said also among those who philosophize outside Greece — some things among the Indians by the Brahmans, and some in Syria by those called Jews.

I pass over the Cappadocians, the Syrians, and the beings who inhabit the land of India toward the ends of the earth, all of whom have had the misfortune to suffer many terrible and grievous afflictions.

the same and no other in Egyptians and in Syrians and in the people of Pontus.