Ezr. iv. 8.SHIMSHAI, or Samsai, a Secretary or Scribe, who with Rehum the Chancellor wrote to King Artaxerxes against the Jews, that were lately returned from their Captivity, in the Year of the World 3470, before Christ 530, before the vulgar Era 534. This Artaxerxes to whom they wrote, was no other than the Magian, who usurped the Empire after the Death of Cambyses. He is call’d Oropastes by Trogus, and Smerdis by Herodotus.
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