Nineveh
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Ninus · great Ninus · senseless Nineveh · the Assyrian city of Ninus
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1 expressionNinus“Nineveh”5 mentions
The Histories (Greek) · Stromata (Greek) · Orations (Greek)
Collecting all his subjects, he marched against Ninus, wanting to avenge his father and to destroy the city.
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Orations
A great but, per Phocylides, disorderly and senseless city used as a negative example against a small well-ordered city.
a small city dwelling in order upon a crag is stronger than senseless Nineveh.
So neither would the poet have spoken of Nineveh as of a city, since it was senseless.
For that notorious Sardanapallus held Nineveh, and held Babylon, the greatest of the cities that had ever been;
The Histories
The Assyrian capital, called Ninus, besieged and eventually captured by the Medes under Cyaxares after two failed Median campaigns and an intervening Scythian occupation.
Collecting all his subjects, he marched against Ninus, wanting to avenge his father and to destroy the city.
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.
that is, against those of the Assyrians who held Ninus.
Stromata
The great city (Nineveh) over which Sardanapallus reigned, mentioned in his quoted epitaph.
For I too am ashes, who reigned over great Ninus.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The city whose inhabitants and cattle fast in penitence and are spared destruction.
Through this sequel of mourning and through abstinence, even that sinful city Nineveh is delivered from the destruction foretold.