Assyria

But the Assyrians, both those from Babylon and those from the rest of Assyria, will bring, I think, not fewer than 20,000 horse and not fewer, I am sure, than 200 war-chariots, and a vast number of infantry, I suppose;

We are all agreed that, inasmuch as we are quite ready, it is best not to sit down here in a friendly country and wait till the enemy have invaded your territory before we begin to fight, but to go as quickly as possible into the enemy’s country.

but if we go into the enemy’s country, we shall do injury to theirs with all our hearts.

After the Assyrians had ruled Upper Asia for five hundred and twenty years, the Medes were the first who began to revolt from them.

and they took Ninus (how, I will describe in a later part of my history), and brought all Assyria except the province of Babylon under their rule.

In Assyria there are many other great cities, but the most famous and the strongest was Babylon, where the royal dwelling had been established after the destruction of Ninus.

Thus Hezekiah when he had not stood to the engagements made by his ancestors, being threatened with an attack from the King of Assyria on that account, acknowledged his fault, and left it to the King to assign what penalty he should pay for the offence.

Plutarch relates the same of the ancient Corinthians and Megarensians, and Cyrus sent a message to the king of Assyria to inform him that he was willing to avoid molesting all who were employed in tilling the ground.

and others were across the East, the one of that region from among the Assyrians, the other in Palestine, a Hebrew by descent.

For all that, they reckoned its history not to reach back in antiquity beyond the date of the Nativity save by a little — until the excavators came upon mention of it in the ruins of Assyria about the eighth century before the Nativity (1), in the course of reports of wars and conquests, which indicates that that tribe was of consequence in that age.