The story of Cambuscan bold.
Camby´ses (3 syl.), a pompous, ranting character in Preston's tragedy of that name.
I must speak in passion, and I will do it in
king Cambyses' vein.—Shakespeare, 1
Henry IV
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act ii. sc. 4 (1597).
Camby´ses and Smerdis. Cambysês king of Persia killed his brother Smerdis from the wild suspicion of a madman, and it is only charity to think that he was really non compos mentis.
Behold Cambisês and his fatal daye ...
While he his brother Mergus cast to slaye,