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Media (a countrie of Asia) as Solinus writeth, toke the name of one Medus, the sonne of Medea and Egeus, kyng of Athenes.
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Chaldean in his 5. booke telleth that Nimrod (whom other profane stories cal Saturne) sent Assyrius, Medus, Moscus, and Magog into
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hystaspes, that followed the Magi, and not Medus, that was before
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Medus et Phoebi propioris Indus et Dahae Parthis equitem minati, anxius sceptrum tenet et mouentis cuncta diuinat metuitque casus10 mobilis rerum dubiumque tempus.
Mutability 1912
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Resolving to have no future king, the Athenians substituted the office of archon, or ruler, and made his son, Medus, the superior magistrate.
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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Medea, the wicked enchantress; for she was now the king's wife, and wanted to give the kingdom to her son Medus, instead of letting it be given to the son of Aethra, whom she hated.
Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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The River Tigris, rising in the cold Mountain, Niphates, Horace gives its name to the Stream, as he does that of Medus to the Euphrates, which Plato asserts to have been formerly so called.
Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace Anna Seward 1775
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Confluxit populus: totam pater undique secum Moverat Aurorem; mixtis hic Colchus Iberis, Hic mitra velatus Arabs, hic crine decoro Armenius, hic picta Saces, fucataque Medus, Hic gemmata tiger tentoria fixerat Indus.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Alexandrinus takes notice of Zoroaster [941] Medus, who is probably the same as the Perso-Medes of Suidas.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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Assyrius, Medus, Moscus, and Magog into Asia to plant colonies there, and that Moscus planted both in Asia and Europe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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