[908] Benhadad of Damascus was attended with thirty-two kings, when he invaded Samaria. 1 Kings. c. 20. v. 1. [909] The people plowed, and sowed, and had fruits, and pastures, within their walls. [910] 2 Kings. c. 17. v. 6. and c. 18. v. 11. and v. 34. Isaiah. c. 10. v. 9. c. 37. v. 13. [911] Diodorus Sicul. l. 2. p. 90. [912] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 91. [913] Ibid. p. 92. [914] Ἁυτη μεν απεδεξατο χωματα ανα το πεδιον εοντα αξιοθεητα. Herod. l. 1. c. 184. Such χωματα were raised by the Amonians in all places where they settled, called ταφοι. Four such were in Troas. Εισι μεν ουν λοφοι τετταρες, Ολυμπιοι καλουμενοι. Strabo. l. 10. p. 720. There were such also of the Amazons in Mauritania. [915] She carried back but twenty men, according to Strabo. l. 15. p. 1051. [916] Chron. Paschale. p. 36. Semiramis was, we find, Rhea: and Rhea was the same as Cybele, the mother of the Gods: την Ῥεαν, Κιβελην, και Κυβην, και Δινδυμηνην. Strabo. l. 10. p. 721. [917] Cononis narrationes apud Phot. p. 427. [918] Herodot. l. 1. c. 184. five ages (γενεαι) before Nitocris the mother of Labynitus, whom Cyrus conquered. It may be worth while to observe the different opinions of authors about the time, when Semiramis is supposed to have lived. Years. According to Syncellus she lived before Christ 2177 Petavius makes the term 2060 Helvicus 2248 Eusebius 1984 Mr. Jackson 1964 Abp. Usher 1215 Philo Biblius from Sanchoniathon (apud Euseb. Præp. Evang. 1200 l. 1. p. 31.) about Herodotus about 713 What credit can be given to the history of a person, the time of whose life cannot be ascertained within 1535 years? for so great is the difference of the extremes in the numbers before given. See Dionys. Perieg. Schol. in v. 1006. [919] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 90. [920] Herodotus. l. 1. c. 98. [921] Diodorus Sicul. l. 1. p. 92. [922] Strabo. l. 15. p. 1007. [923] Arrian. Hist. Ind. p. 318. [924] Josephus cont. Ap. l. 1. c. 19. p. 451. [925] Steph. Byzant. Βαβυλων. [926] Suidas: Σεμιραμις. [927] Pliny. l. 7. p. 417. [928] Semiramis teneros mares castravit omnium prima. Marcellinus. l. 14. c. 6. [929] Σεμιραμις λαγνος γυνη, και μιαιφονος. Athenag. Legatio. p. 307. [930] Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v. 339. [931] This is the reason that we find these kingdoms so often confounded, and the Babylonians continually spoken of as Assyrians, and sometimes as Persians. Βαβυλων Περσικη πολις. Steph. Byz. [932] Strabo. l. 16. p. 1071.