Mede : native(s) of Media, the north-western part of ancient Iran.
... hearthsides. Yield these and live, else I leap on you, Fate in front, Hades behind me. Bound to the gods by an oath I return not again from the battle Till from high Ida my shadow extends to the Mede and Euphrates. Let not your victories deceive you, steps that defeat has imagined; Hear not the voice of your heroes; their fame is a trumpet in Hades: Only they conquer while yet my horses champ ...
... wing off with careless flight to Lethe. Medes enters. IOLAUS What is it, Medes? Page 367 MEDES The King, Prince Iolaus, Requires your presence in his audience-chamber. IOLAUS So? Tell me, Medes, is Poseidon's priest In presence there? MEDES He is and full of wrath. IOLAUS Go, tell them I am coming. Medes goes out. PRAXILLA Alas! IOLAUS... beggars rather than one bright curl Of Iolaus feel his gloomy mischiefs. Page 369 CEPHEUS I had already thought of it. Medes! Medes enters. Waits Polydaon yet? MEDES He does, my lord. CEPHEUS Call him, and Tyrian Phineus. Medes goes out again. CASSIOPEA Bid Tyre save Andromeda's loved brother from this doom; He shall not have our daughter otherwise... thy justice? How shall thy kingdom last? CEPHEUS You hear him, Cassiopea? he will not yield, He is inexorable. POLYDAON Must I wait longer? CEPHEUS Ho Medes! Medes enters. Iolaus comes not yet. Medes goes out. CASSIOPEA ( rising fiercely ) Priest, thou wilt have my child's blood then, it seems! Nought less will satisfy thee than thy prince For victim? POLYDAON ...
... his, seems unwarranted... "At Pentecost, almost immediately after Jesus had gone, the audience which was reported to have heard the disciples preach in Jerusalem contained 'Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappado-cia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes ...
... 429, 458, 460 Maukharis, 485, 487, 489 Mauryas, iii, 2, 9, 202, 478-9, 489, 553-4 mayura, 262 Mazdean religion and practice, 247, 255-6, 307, 308, 314, 324, 325, 592 Medes (Madai), 333, 467 Megallae, 166 Megasthenes: Indica, vii, i, 14, 15, 16, 17, 60, 71, 91, 92, 94-105, 116, 145-7, 153, 202, 214, 218, 219, 226, 229, 241, 242, 245, 312, 322, 336, 338 ...
... old times subject to the Assyrians" before the period of Median and Persian rule over them. But it is certain that in the times preceding those of the Persian (Achaemenid) Cyrus and the still earlier Medes we get two bits of information proving Assyria and India to have been in touch. Jairazbhoy 1 writes: "The cotton tree was introduced from India into Assyria (c. 700 B.C.) by Sennacherib (704-681 B... the names of two conquered princes: Mazdaku and Mastaku - names derived from the Zarathustrian God Mazda. R. Ghirshman 2 cites the annals of Shalmaneser III to show that the Assyrians knew of the Medes (Madai) in 836 B.C. and of the Persians (Parsua) in 844 B.C. The Parsua are said to have conquered Elam and Anshan. These territories came to be called "Parsa" and from them the Achaemenids hailed.... Age of Imperial Unity, p. 40. Page 466 Arrian (Indica I, 1-3) that the Indians between the rivers Indus and Cophēs (Kābul) "were in ancient times subject to the Assyrians, the Medes, and, finally, to the Persians under Cyrus to whom they paid the tribute he imposed upon them". 1 From the Behistun inscription (c. 520-518 B.C.), the earliest record of Darius the successor of Cyrus's ...
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