1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar),Myles Coverdale, transl.,Biblia: The Byble,[…] (Coverdale Bible),[Cologne or Marburg]:[Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?],→OCLC, I. Esdras [Ezra] j:[2],folio cvij, recto, column 1:
Thus ſayethCyꝛus the kynge of Perſia: The LORDE God of heauẽ hath geuen me all the kyngdomes in the londe and hath commaunded me to buylde him an houſe at Ieruſalem in Iuda.
2018, Luuk Huitink, “Xenophon”, in Koen De Temmerman, Evert van Emde Boas, editors,Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Mnemosyne Supplements: Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 411; Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, 4), Leiden:Brill,→ISBN,→ISSN, part 7 (Biography),page471:
Furthermore, the superlative formulation ofCyrus’ character (he possesseskallos,philanthrōpia,philomathia andphilotimia to an outstanding degree) may be thought to make him a supremely successful leader, but also a unique and not so easily imitated one (how manyCyruses do you know? Can you beCyrus?).
Cyrus] There were twoCyrithe greater, meant here, Conqueror of Aſia,Scythia, and all the Eaſt, reigning in the time ofTarquin the proud.[…] The other wasCyrus the leſſer, ſonne toDarius, brother toArtaxerxes, whoſe iourney into Perſia,Xenophon wrote.[marginal note:] The tvvoCyri.[…]Cyriwho they were.
1973, D. Hegyi, “Historical Authenticity of Herodotus in the Persian «Logoi»”, inActa Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume21, Budapest:Akadémiai Kiadó,→ISSN,pages76–77:
At this passage the Behistun inscription does not enumerate the names of all the nine Achaemenians, but from an inscription Aššurbānapli to be dated to 639 B. C. we know that a certain Kuraš was the king of the country of Parsumaš at this time and this could be the grandfather ofCyrus «the Great». In the family tree between the twoCyri appears Cambyses I, who is mentioned by Herodotus.
1980,J[ohn] E[dward] Atkinson, “Commentary on Book 3”, inA Commentary on Q. Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni, Books 3 and 4, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben,→ISBN,page137:
Contrast Arrian’s statement that the camp belonged to the youngerCyrus (ii, 4.3). It is unlikely that bothCyri camped in the same area (pace Mützell), for whenCyrus marched against Croesus he entered Asia Minor on the northerly route, as Pteria was his first objective (Hdt. i, 76.1), and he would not therefore have gone through the Cilician Gates.
1868, “Route 20:London to Tiflis[…]”, inHandbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray,page321:
In the mountains near Suram is a watering-place called Burjan, to which the Imperial Lieutenant of the Caucasus retires in summer. The river Kur, the ancientCyrus, takes its rise in that district.
^Diakonoff, I. M.; Kashkai, S. M. (1981), “Quriane”, inGeographical Names According to Urartian Texts (Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes; 9), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag,pages70–71
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