The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . King, with atteudants, speaiing a lion (Koyunjik). CH. TIGLATH-PILESER 11. 427 come, in spite of the peoples i-epentance. God was more mer-ciful than man. He had pity on thegreat city, with its six score thousand persons that could not discern betweentheir right hand and their left,^ and, sparing the penitents,left their town to stand unharmed for more than anothercentury. The circumstances under whi
The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world: or, The history, geography and antiquities of Chaldæa, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, and Sassanian or New Persian empire . King, with atteudants, speaiing a lion (Koyunjik). CH. TIGLATH-PILESER 11. 427 come, in spite of the peoples i-epentance. God was more mer-ciful than man. He had pity on thegreat city, with its six score thousand persons that could not discern betweentheir right hand and their left,^ and, sparing the penitents,left their town to stand unharmed for more than anothercentury. The circumstances under which Tiglath-Pileser II. ascendedthe throne in the year 745 are unknown to us. No confi-dence can be placed in the statement of Bion -^^ and Polyhis-tor,298 which seems to have been intended to refer to this mon-arch, whom they called Beletaras—a corruption perhaps of thelatter half of the name-^—that he was, previously to his eleva-tion to the royal dignity, a mere vine-dresser, whose occupa-tion was to keep in order the gardens of the king. Similartales of the low origin of self-raised and usurping monarchs aretoo common in the East, and are too often contradicted by thefacts
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