I. NINUS, Son of Belus the Assyrian, and Founder of the Assyrian Monarchy, in the Year of the World 2737, before Christ 1263, and before the vulgar Æra 1267; about the Time of the Government of Deborah and Barak Judges of Israel. Herodotus says1, that for an Hundred and twenty Years this Monarchy was in Possession of the upper Egypt. Ctesias, and after him Diodorus Siculus2, Trogus, and Justin, say, that Ninus brought into Subjection to him all the Princes of Asia, except those of India. Zoroaster King of the Bactrians opposed him a good while, but at last was subdued by Ninus. Julius Africanus ascribes to this Prince a Reign of fifty two Years; but Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in the first Book of his Roman Antiquities, shews very well, that the first Kings of Assyria had but a small Part of Asia in their Possession.
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