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	Blue Letter Bible - ISBE - Cambyses
		It is variously said that she was Cassandane, a Persian princess, Amytis, a Median princess, or Nititis, a daughter of Apries king of Egypt.
		Shortly after this, Cambyses heard that a certain Magian, who claimed to be his brother Smerdes whom he had secretly put to death, had set himself up as king of Persia, and that almost the whole of his Asiatic dominions had acknowledged him as king.
		With the fragments of his army he started toward Persia to attack the usurper, but on the way was killed by a wound inflicted by himself, it is uncertain whether by accident or with intention.
	cf.blueletterbible.org /isbe/isbe.cfm?id=1815 (653 words)

	James Ussher - The Annals of the World.
		However, Ctesias writes, that Bagabates the eunuch and Artasyras an Hyrcanian, who were with Cambyses in Egypt and of great authority under him took counsel while Cambyses was still living.
		However, Herodotus says, that 8 months after Cambyses' death, the matter was brought first to light by the cunning of Otanes the son of Pharnaspes and later more fully explained by Prexaspes.
		When Prexaspes was in a certain tower, he called the people to him and from there declared to them that Cambyses ordered him to murder his brother Smerdes, the son of Cyrus and that they were being ruled by the Magi.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/nwp/World8.htm (14813 words)

	Porphyrius: Comments on Daniel - translation
		Of these, the first two died long before Antiochus was born; we know that Antiochus fought against Artaxias, but Artaxias remained in possession of his kingdom as before.
		He says that four kings will arise in Persia after Cyrus: Cambyses the son of Cyrus, Smerdes the Magus, who married Pantaptes the daughter of Cambyses, and after Smerdes was killed (?) by the seven magi and Darius came to power in his place, the same Pantaptes married Darius and bore him a son Xerxes.
		Xerxes was a very powerful and wealthy king, and invaded Greece with an enormous army, as is related in the histories of Greece.
	www.attalus.org /translate/daniel.html (4025 words)

	Comparing Mummy Dockets and Their Chronological Value
		Kitchen states rightly that the `Smendes in the travelogue of Wenamon' whom he met at Tanis on his way to Phoenicia was not a king.
		However, in our view Smendes (I) was the false Smerdes who spent time in Egypt up to about 522 BC and later, on his way to Susa, was assassinated.
		This Smerdes/Smendes was of royal Persian blood and no doubt had been with his brother Cambyses in Egypt and this way left some signs of his presence there.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /mummy_dockets (1066 words)

	R. Wyon - The Balkans from within - 1.8
		Mauser bullet through the left knee, shattering the knee-cap.
		"A boy, thirteen years old" - we are beside the next little patient - "shot through both hips by Mauser bullet at Smerdes."
		Poor little fellow, he looks pitifully at us as we pass on to the next little sufferer, a year younger still.
	www.kroraina.com /knigi/en/rw2/rw_1_8.html (2300 words)

	Part 1, Chapter 10 - Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel. - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		J.P. The same thing I gather also thus.
		J.P. 4185, and reigned eight years, including the five months of Smerdes; and then Darius Hytaspis began in spring An.
		J.P. 4193, and reigned thirty six years, by the unanimous consent of all Chronologers.
	www.historicist.com /newton/p1c10.htm (1913 words)

	The Sixth Age of the World
		Some say he took him on a hunting match; others report that he lured him along as far as the Red Sea and drowned him in it.
		9.) states that this charge was committed to Cometes, one of the Magi and that he did not murder Smerdes or Merges until after Cambyses was dead.
		He says that Spendahates, one of the Magi, was scourged by Tanyaxares, that is, by this Smerdis' commander.
	bennieblount.org /Online/Ussher/81.htm (17985 words)

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