SARAC, or Saracus, otherwise call’d Chinaladan, succeeded Saosduchin in the Kingdom of Assyria, in the Year of the World 3356, before Christ 644, before the Vulgar Era 648 : He reigned two and twenty Years, and died in the Year of the World 3378, before Christ 622, before the Vulgar Era 626. His Reign is famous in History, because it was in his time that Nabopolassar and Astyages, ( the first being a Babylonian, and General of Sarac’s Army, and the latter being Son of Cyaxares King of the Medes) conspired together against him, besieged Nineveh, took it, deprived Sarac of the Kingdom, and divided his Dominions between them. Astyages reigned in Media, and Nabopolassar in Assyria. This Event is a famous Epocha among the Chronologers. We place it, with Usher, in the Year of the World 3378, before Christ 622, before the Vulgar Era 626.
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