{"id":17188,"date":"2017-06-24T23:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T22:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2017-06-24T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T22:20:05","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-7-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2017\/06\/24\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-7-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 7 \u2013 part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us carry on with Eutychius.\u00a0 We reach the times of Alexander.<\/em><\/p>\n

10. After him reigned his son Qam\u012bs\u016bs for nine years.[ref]Cambyses II, son of Cyrus.[\/ref]\u00a0 After him, Smardhiy\u016bs the Magian reigned\u00a0for a single year.\u00a0 He\u00a0was called the Magian because a Persian named Zar\u0101dast appeared in his days, under whose influence the religion of the Magi became official, and he instituted the worship at the temples of fire.\u00a0 After him, D\u0101r\u0101 I reigned for twenty years.[ref]Darius I.[\/ref]\u00a0 After him reigned Artahsh\u0101st, nicknamed “Longimanus” for twenty-four years.<\/p>\n

In his time there lived in Greece in the city of Quw\u0101[ref]Cos?[\/ref], the physician Buqr\u0101t, master of medical art.[ref]I.e. Hippocrates.[\/ref]\u00a0 Sa`\u012bd ibn Batr\u012bq the\u00a0physician says: “It is true\u00a0what \u011e\u0101lin\u016bs says in his commentary to\u00a0\u201cKit\u0101b Iman Buqr\u0101t wa \u2018ahdih\u012b”\u00a0[ref]I.e. the Book of the Oath and Testament of Hippocrates.”\u00a0 Cf. Strohmaier, G., “Hunayn ibn Ish\u0101q et le Serment Hippocratique”, in: Arabica<\/em>\u00a021 (1974), pp. 318-323.[\/ref] where he asserts: ‘The king of Persia sent messengers\u00a0to Hippocrates with a lot of money, asking him to go to him.\u00a0 But Hippocrates did not consent to his request and did not go to him because he did not consider it right to\u00a0care for\u00a0the\u00a0Persian enemies of the Greeks.’ Hunayn ibn Ish\u0101q reports, in his translation of this book from Greek into Arabic, that Galen has conveyed that Hippocrates did not go\u00a0to Artakhsh\u0101sht nicknamed “Longimanus” because it was said that at the time of this king the Persians had been affected by the disease called ” Al-Maw\u0101riq”.[ref]More commonly “mayr\u00f9q”, i.e. fungus or jaundice.[\/ref]\u00a0 In another text it is said that it was an epizootic disease.[ref]I.e. an epidemic among animals, often communicable to men.[\/ref] [The king] then sent the satrap of the city of Quw\u0101salah to give Hippocrates a hundred “qint\u0101r” of gold, and sent it to him with honors and signs of esteem, to heal the Persians from the illness that had struck them.\u00a0 But Hippocrates refused because he did not feel right to help and care for the enemies of the Greeks.”<\/p>\n

11. Artakhsh\u0101sht Longimanus died and after him Artakhsh\u0101sht the Great\u00a0reigned for thirty years.\u00a0 After him reigned Makid\u016bniy\u016bs for three years.\u00a0 After him reigned\u00a0Sa\u2018adaniy\u016bs for three years.[ref]Sogdianus.[\/ref] After him, D\u0101r\u0101 II, nicknamed an-N\u0101kit[ref]Darius II Notus.[\/ref], reigned for seventeen years.\u00a0 After him, Artakhsh\u0101sht, one of the sons of his brother K\u016brish II, reigned for twenty-two years.\u00a0 The wise men and philosophers of his time living in Greece were Hiraqlus, M\u0101l\u016bs, F\u012bth\u0101gh\u016bras, Suqr\u0101tis, S\u012bl\u016bn the legislator, Z\u012bn\u016bn, Abindaflis.[ref]Heraclitus, Malus (?), Pythagoras, Socrates, Solon, Zeno, Empedocles.[\/ref] After him reigned his son Artakhsh\u0101sht\u00a0known as\u00a0Akh\u016bs[ref]Artaxerxes III Ochus.[\/ref] for twenty years. Akhus, king of the Persians, gathered the army and marched on Egypt. The king of Egypt went out, and occupied the land. The king of Egypt, who was then the Pharaoh Sh\u0101n\u0101q[ref]This must be Nectanebo II.[\/ref], fearing to fall into the hands of Akh\u016bs, King of the Persians, and be tortured, cut off his hair, shaved his beard and fled\u00a0in disguise\u00a0to the town of Maqid\u016bniyah.[ref]I.e. to Macedonia.[\/ref] Akh\u016bsh, king of the Persians, built the citadel known as Qasr ash-Shama in Fust\u0101t, Egypt. He also built an imposing temple for the house of fire known today under the name of the church of M\u0101r T\u0101durus.”\u00a0 The\u00a0king of the town of Maqid\u016bniyah was Philip, father of Alexander. Akhus, King of the Persians, died.\u00a0 After him reigned his son Ars\u012bs, nicknamed “an-N\u0101kit” for eleven years.\u00a0 The philosophers and wise men of his time living in the city of Ath\u012bn\u0101 and in Greece were Afl\u0101t\u016bn, Kins\u0101l\u016bn, D\u012bm\u016bkr\u0101tis, Abull\u016bniy\u016bs and Suqr\u0101t.[ref]Plato, Xenophon, Democrates, Apollonius, and Socrates.[\/ref]<\/p>\n

12. Ars\u012bs, king of the Persians, died.\u00a0 After him, his son D\u0101riy\u016bs reigned for seven years until he was killed by Alexander, who had become king of the kings who were in Mossul, B\u0101bil, F\u0101ris and \u00a0\u0100mid.\u00a0 The cause for which Alexander killed D\u0101riy\u016bs, king of the Persians, was this.\u00a0 When his father Philip died, Alexander succeeded him on the throne of Makid\u016bniyah at the age of sixteen.\u00a0 D\u0101riy\u016bsh, king of F\u0101ris, knowing that Alexander was reigning over the R\u016bm after his father, tried to subdue him and wrote a letter\u00a0to him as follows: “It has come to my notice that you have taken to reign over the R\u016bm without my permission.\u00a0 If you had followed your father’s judicious conduct and acted according to our agreements, it would have been better for you and your prosperity would be long.\u00a0 But the inexperience of your youth has induced you to behave with foolishness, and fools also are those who are with you.\u00a0 Desist from the state in which you are, and send the\u00a0tribute for yourself and your country, acknowledge your mistake and\u00a0do it soon, without delay, otherwise I will move against you with the men of F\u0101ris, and with them I will trample your country, I will kill your men, and I will\u00a0deprive you of\u00a0your prosperity.\u00a0 I send you\u00a0something that, if you can count it, you will know how many are my men and my friends.\u00a0 Peace [to you]”. And he sent to him\u00a0by a\u00a0messenger, a qaf\u012br<\/em> of sesame seeds.<\/p>\n

13. The messenger of D\u0101riy\u016bs presented himself to Alexander and handed him the letter and the sesame seeds.\u00a0 Alexander summoned his generals and read them the letter of D\u0101riy\u016bs.\u00a0 Then he said to them,\u00a0“If you are\u00a0gathered together, and you unite, you will beat him, but if you are divided\u00a0he will\u00a0get the better of you.” One by one they expressed their opinion and Alexander answered them, saying, “I feel\u00a0that we will conquer D\u0101riy\u016bs. It is proof of this, that he compared his men to sesame, which is a insubstantial food, and one that\u00a0is eaten without effort. I feel that his kingdom will be ours.”\u00a0 His men said to him,\u00a0“This is the will of God.” Then Alexander wrote a letter to D\u0101riy\u016bs in these terms:\u00a0“From him who has become king by the will of God,\u00a0from Alexander, the servant of God and King of the Greeks,\u00a0to the\u00a0excellent D\u0101riy\u016bs.\u00a0 I understand the content of your letter, what you describe as a transgression to your order, and what you are threatening me, that if\u00a0I do not abandon the state in which I am and\u00a0delay to send\u00a0what you order me to\u00a0send you, you will move against me with your men of Fars.\u00a0 But your heart has spoken what your hand can not take, nor your thinking reach, because, in truth, I will\u00a0come out against you with the lions of the Greeks, and then I will let you know how\u00a0matters stand at\u00a0our meeting. I send you something to be able to anticipate the\u00a0strong flavour of my men. Peace [to you]”. And he sent him a small bag of mustard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us carry on with Eutychius.\u00a0 We reach the times of Alexander. 10. After him reigned his son Qam\u012bs\u016bs for nine years.[ref]Cambyses II, son of Cyrus.[\/ref]\u00a0 After him, Smardhiy\u016bs the Magian reigned\u00a0for a single year.\u00a0 He\u00a0was called the Magian because a Persian named Zar\u0101dast appeared in his days, under whose influence the religion of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[672,681],"class_list":["post-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius","tag-eutychius-chapter-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}