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The ‘twenty-eight years’ are a piece of unexplained tradition; the old explanation that they are the interval between Cyaxares’ accession and the fall of Nineveh breaks down, because we now know Cyaxares came to the throne in 625 not in 634 B. C.

The first χωρίς is an adverb, the second a preposition.

The Scyths were mere destroyers, and have been compared to the Huns of the fifth century A. D. (cf. Jer. vi. 22-3 for the description of them).

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