This Ninus made the city of Nineveh, the which that Noah had begun before. |
From what source is the narrative of Ninus and Semiramis derived? |
The capital, Ninus or Nineveh, was taken by the Medes under Cyaxares, and some 200 years after Xenophon passed over its site, then mere mounds of earth. |
Ninus ruled half the earth with his frown, and she ruled Ninus with her smile. |
The history of antiquity, according to it, begins with Ninus. |
And because that Ninus performed it, he cleped it Nineveh after his own name. |