The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . fiuminum et fruteta leones vagantur?inmimeri. Amm. Marc, sviii. I. claims to haveslaiu ill all 800 lions. {Inscription,&c. l>. 50.) Loitiis, (huklnu (Did fSttsiuna, pp. 261, 262. ^ Isaiah xxviii. 2. ^ Nahum iii. 1. Woe to thebloody city,—or, as the margingives it — Woe to the city of bloods! (Dvoi n^y >-in). Chap. III. FIERCENESS COMBINED WITH CLEMENCY. 303 But we have no reason to believe that the nationwas especially blo
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . fiuminum et fruteta leones vagantur?inmimeri. Amm. Marc, sviii. I. claims to haveslaiu ill all 800 lions. {Inscription,&c. l>. 50.) Loitiis, (huklnu (Did fSttsiuna, pp. 261, 262. ^ Isaiah xxviii. 2. ^ Nahum iii. 1. Woe to thebloody city,—or, as the margingives it — Woe to the city of bloods! (Dvoi n^y >-in). Chap. III. FIERCENESS COMBINED WITH CLEMENCY. 303 But we have no reason to believe that the nationwas especially bloodthirsty or unfeeling. The muti-lation of the slain — not by way of insult, but inproof of their slayers prowess *—was indeed prac-tised among them ; but otherwise there is little indi-cation of any barbarous—much less of any reallycruel—usages. The Assyrian listens to the enemywho asks for quarter, he prefers making prisoners toslaying; he is very terrible in the battle and theassault, but afterwards he forgives and spares. Ofcourse in some cases he makes exceptions. When atown has rebelled and been subdued, he impales some. Capture of a city (Nimrud). * Probably a reward was given forheads, as has often been the fasliionwith Orientals. Sometimes scribes are represented as takinsj account ofthem. (Sec Layard, Nin. and itsBemains, vol. ii. p. 184 ) 304 THE SECOND MONARCHY. Chap. III. of the most guilty ; ^ and in two or three instancesprisoners are represented ^ as led before the king bya rope fastened to a ring which passes through theunder lip, while now and then one appears in the
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