Belgravia, June 12. 1851.
_The second King of Nineveh who burned his Palace_ (Vol. iii., p.
408).--D. X. will find all that is known of this king in the Armenian
version of Eusebius's _Chronicle_, 53., and in the _Chronographia_ of
Georgius, Syncellus (and subsequently Patriarch) of Constantinople, p.
210. B. The former gives as his authority Abydenus, and the latter
Polyhistor. Both passages will be found in Cory's _Ancient Fragments_.
The Median king is called in both Astyages, and not Cyaxares; but the
date of the catastrophe being fixed by Ptolemy's Canon in 625 B. C., the
reviewer, I suppose, considered himself justified in altering the name
to that of the king who appears from Herodotus to have governed Media at
that date.