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The war lasted longer than H. thinks; it perhaps began in 546 B. C., as the annals of Nabonidus seem to speak of an attack on Akkad (i. e. N. Babylonia) from Elam in that year (R. P. v2. 161); but the record is much mutilated.


προεσάξαντο. The use of this word in viii. 20. 1 seems to show that it is from προσάττω, ‘they packed up beforehand,’ not from προεσάγω (as Schweighäuser); cf. v. 34. 1 n.

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