[49] Media simply means "the country." It is supposed, that of the six Median tribes only one was Aryan, holding the rest, which were Turanian, under its influence.
[50] There were, besides, a few small independent powers in Asia Minor, such as Cilicia, whose prince also intervened at the Battle of the Eclipse; and the Ionian cities in the west. But all these, with perhaps the exception of Lycia, were brought into subjection to Lydia by Crœsus, son of Alyattis.
[52] Other passages are: xli. 5, _Isles saw and feared, the ends of the earth trembled_; xlii. 10, _The sea and its fulness, Isles and their dwellers_; lix. 18, _He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompence to His enemies: to the Isles He will repay recompence_; lxvi. 19, _The nations, Tarshish, Pul, Lud, drawers of the bow, Tubal, Javan, the Isles afar off that have not heard my fame_. The Hebrew is יא 'î, and is supposed to be from a root אוה awah, _to inhabit_, which sense, however, never attaches to the verb in Hebrew, but is borrowed from the cognate Arabic word.
[53] Of the Philistine coast, Isa. xx. 6; of the Tyrian coast, Isa. xxiii. 2, 6; of Greece, Ezek. xxvii. 7; of Crete, Jer. xlvii. 4; of the islands of the sea, Isa. xi. 11 and Esther x. 1.
[54] xlii. 15: Eng. version, _I will turn rivers into islands_.
[56] There were two branches of the Persian royal family after Teispes, the son of Akhæmenes, the founder. Teispes annexed Anshan on the level land between the north-east corner of the Persian Gulf and the mountains of Persia. Teispes' eldest son, Cyrus I., became king of Anshan; his other, Ariaramnes, king of Persia. These were succeeded by their sons, Kambyses I. and Arsames. Kambyses I. was the father of Cyrus II., the great Cyrus, who rejoined Persia to Anshan, to the exclusion of his second cousin, Hystaspes. Cyrus the Great was succeeded by his son, Kambyses II., with whom the Anshan line closed, and the power was transferred to Darius, son of Hystaspes. _Cf._ Ragozin's _Media_, in the "Story of the Nations" series.
[57] Halévy, "Cyrus et le Retour de l'Exil," _Études Juives_, I.
[60] Herodotus explains this by his legend of Cyrus' birth, according to which Cyrus was a hybrid--half Persian, half Mede.