Note 487 — Chapter XVII · LYDIANS. — MEDES. — CIMMERIANS. — SCYTHIANS.
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Herodot. i. 106. Mr. Clinton fixes the date of the capture of Nineveh at 606 B. C. (F. H. vol. i. p. 269), upon grounds which do not appear to me conclusive: the utmost which can be made out is, that it was taken during the last ten years of the reign of Kyaxarês.