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 113 wkicli had to the eye the appearance of moniitauis^ and were so contrived that they were planted with all sorts of trees, because his wife, who had been bred up in the land of Media, wished her surroundings to be like those of her early home.] Megasthen^s also, in the 4sth hook of his IndiJca^ makes mention of these things, and thereby endeavours to show that this king surpassed HSrakles in courage and the greatness of his achievements^ for he says that he conquered Libya and a great part of Ibdria. Fbaqm. XLVIII. C. Zonar. ed. Basil. 1557> T. L p. 87^ Among the many old historians who mention Nabouchodonosor, Jdsephos enumerates B^r6* 80S, Megasthends, and Diokl&s. Fragm. XLVIII. D. G. Syncell. T. I. p. 419, ed. Benn. (p. 221 ed. Paris, p. 17^ edw Venet.). Megasthends, in his fourth booh of the Indika^ represents Nabouchodonosor as mightier than H^rakles, because with great courage and enter- prise he conquered the greater part of Libya and Iberia. Fragm. XLIX. Abyden. ap. Eikseh, Prcep, Ev. I. 41 (ed. Colon. 1688» p. 456 D). Of Nahouchodrosor. MegastJien^s says that Nahouchodrosor, who was mightier than H^rakles, undertook an ex«