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Identifier: cu31924091762140 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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the couriers, caravans, and armies which passed throughtheir territory. Native magistrates and kings still bore Herodotus cites among the commanders of the Persian fleet threeCarian dynasts, Histiteus, Pigres, and Damasithymus, besides the famousArtemisi-a of Hahcaniassus. 2 In Herodotus where a dynast named Kyberniskos, son of Sika, ismentioned among the commanders of the fleet. The received text ofHerodotus needs correction, and we should read Kybernis, son of Kossika,some of whose coins are still in existence. 3 The Cilician contingent in the fleet of Xerxes at Salainis was com-manded I)y Hyennesis himself, and Cilicia never had a satrap until the timeof Cyrus the younger. 182 THE IRANIAN CONQUEST sway in Phoenicia^ and Cyprus, and the shekhs of thedesert preserved their authority oyer the marauding andsemi-nomadic tribes of Idumsea, Nabataea, Moab, andAmmon, and the wandering Bedawin on the Euphratesand the Khabur. Egypt, under Darius, remained whatshe had been under the Saitic an
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