II. ASTYAGES, otherwise called Ahasuerus, Tobiæ ult. v. ult. in the Greek, and Dan. ix. 1. or Artaxerxes, Dan. vi. 1. in the Greek, or Darius the Mede, Dan.v. 31. and Cyaxares by his Father’s name, in Xenophon, or Apandas in Ctesias. This Astyages was appointed by his Father Cyaxares Governour of Media1, and sent with Nabopolassar King of Babylon against Saracus, otherwise called Chyniladanus, King of Assyria. These two Princes besieged Saracus in Nineveh; took the City, and dismembred the Assyrian Empire. Astyages was with Cyrus at the conquest of Babylon2, and succeeded Belshassar King of the Chaldæans, as is expresly mentioned in Dan. v. 30, 31. in the year of the World 3447. After his death, Cyrus succeeded him, in the year of the World 3456. See Dan. xiii. 65.
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