[462] Herodotus, 1, 95-101.
[463] Herod. 1, 102.
[464] Vol. III. 257 ff. According to the reigns which Herodotus allows to Deioces and his successors, 150 years before the overthrow of Astyages, which took place 558 B.C., i. e. 708, but, according to the total given by Herodotus—156 years, 714 B.C.
[465] Volney, "Recherches," 1, 144 ff.
[466] In order to remove this objection, the dates of Deioces and Phraortes must be transposed, and the 22 years of Phraortes given to the former, the 53 years of Deioces to the latter. Phraortes would then have marched out against the Assyrians in extreme old age, and fallen in the battle.
[467] Herod. 1, 96.
[468] Vol. III. Bk. 4; Chaps. 1, 4, 5-8.
[469] According to Von Gutschmid. Cf. supr. p. 278.
[470] Vol. II. p. 319. I cannot accept the theory which Lenormant has attempted to establish on the geographical differences in the inscriptions of Shalmanesar II. and Tiglath Pilesar II.—that the Medes and Persians obtained possession of Western Iran shortly before the middle of the eighth century. "Lettres Assyriolog." and "Z. Aegypt. Spr." 1870, s. 48 ff.
[471] Vol. III. 3-5.