_Herodotus_ calls this last King of _Babylon_, _Labynitus_, and says that he was the son of a former _Labynitus_, and of _Nitocris_ an eminent Queen of _Babylon_: by the father he seems to understand that _Labynitus_, who, as he tells us, was King of _Babylon_ when the great Eclipse of the Sun predicted by _Thales_ put an end to the five years war between the _Medes_ and _Lydians_; and this was the great _Nebuchadnezzar_. _Daniel_ [393] calls the last King of _Babylon_, _Belshazzar_, and saith that _Nebuchadnezzar_ was his father: and _Josephus_ tells us, [394] that the last King of _Babylon_ was called _Naboandel_ by the _Babylonians_, and Reigned seventeen years; and therefore he is the same King of _Babylon_ with _Nabonnedus_ or _Labynitus_; and this is more agreeable to sacred writ than to make _Nabonnedus_ a stranger to the royal line: for all _nations were to serve _Nebuchadnezzar_ and his posterity, till the very time of his land should come, and many nations should serve themselves of him_, _Jer._ xxvii. 7. _Belshazzar_ was born and lived in honour before the fifth year of _Jeconiah_'s captivity, which was the eleventh year of _Nebuchadnezzar_'s Reign; and therefore he was above 34 years old at the death of _Evilmerodach_, and so could be no other King than _Nabonnedus_: for _Laboasserdach_ the grandson of _Nebuchadnezzar_ was a child when he Reigned. _Herodotus_ [395] tells us, that there were two famous Queens of _Babylon_, _Semiramis_ and _Nitocris_; and that the latter was more skilful: she observing that the Kingdom of the _Medes_, having subdued many cities, and among others _Nineveh_, was become great and potent, intercepted and fortified the passages out of _Media_ into _Babylonia_; and the river which before was straight, she made crooked with great windings, that it might be more sedate and less apt to overflow: and on the side of the river above _Babylon_, in imitation of the Lake of _Mœris_ in _Egypt_, she dug a Lake every way forty miles broad, to receive the water of the river, and keep it for watering the land. She built also a bridge over the river in the middle of _Babylon_, turning the stream into the Lake 'till the bridge was built. _Philostratus_ saith, [396] that she made a bridge under the river two fathoms broad, meaning an arched vault over which the river flowed, and under which they might walk cross the river: he calls her Μηδεια, a _Mede_.