The _Persians_ being conquered by the _Medes_ about the middle of the Reign of _Zedekiah_, continued in subjection under them 'till the end of the Reign of _Darius_ the _Mede_: and _Cyrus_, who was of the Royal Family of the _Persians_, might be _Satrapa_ of _Persia_, and command a body of their forces under _Darius_; but was not yet an absolute and independant King: but after the taking of _Babylon_, when he had a victorious army at his devotion, and _Darius_ was returned from _Babylon_ into _Media_, he revolted from _Darius_, in conjunction with the _Persians_ under him; [431] they being incited thereunto by _Harpagus_ a _Mede_, whom _Xenophon_ calls _Artagerses_ and _Atabazus_, and who had assisted _Cyrus_ in conquering _Croesus_ and _Asia minor_, and had been injured by _Darius_. _Harpagus_ was sent by _Darius_ with an army against _Cyrus_, and in the midst of a battel revolted with part of the army to _Cyrus_: _Darius_ got up a fresh army, and the next year the two armies fought again: this last battel was fought at _Pasargadæ_ in _Persia_, according to [432] _Strabo_; and there _Darius_ was beaten and taken Prisoner by _Cyrus_, and the Monarchy was by this victory translated to the _Persians_. The last King of the _Medes_ is by _Xenophon_ called _Cyaxares_, and by _Herodotus_, _Astyages_ the father of _Mandane_: but these Kings were dead before, and _Daniel_ lets us know that _Darius_ was the true name of the last King, and _Herodotus_, [433] that the last King was conquered by _Cyrus_ in the manner above described; and the _Darics_ coined by the last King testify that his name was _Darius_.
This victory over _Darius_ was about two years after the taking of _Babylon_: for the Reign or _Nabonnedus_ the last King of the _Chaldees_, whom _Josephus_ calls _Naboandel_ and _Belshazzar_, ended in the year of _Nabonassar_ 210, nine years before the death of _Cyrus_, according to the Canon: but after the translation of the Kingdom of the _Medes_ to the _Persians_, _Cyrus_ Reigned only seven years, according to [434] _Xenophon_; and spending the seven winter months yearly at _Babylon_, the three spring months yearly at _Susa_, and the two Summer months at _Ecbatane_, he came the seventh time into _Persia_, and died there in the spring, and was buried at _Pasargadae_. By the Canon and the common consent of all Chronologers, he died in the year of _Nabonassar_ 219, and therefore conquered _Darius_ in the year of _Nabonassar_ 212, seventy and two years after the destruction of _Nineveh_, and beat him the first time in the year of _Nabonassar_ 211, and revolted from him, and became King of the _Persians_, either the same year, or in the end of the year before. At his death he was seventy years old according to _Herodotus_, and therefore he was born in the year of _Nabonassar_ 149, his mother _Mandane_ being the sister of _Cyaxeres_, at that time a young man, and also the sister of _Amyite_ the wife of _Nebuchadnezzar_, and his father _Cambyses_ being of the old Royal Family of the _Persians_.