The war-cloud thickened, the pickets were driven in, and then a skirmish, and after a while all the batteries were opened, and each side said that the other side lied, and the minister dropped his pocket-handkerchief and showed his claws as long as those of nebuchadnezzar after he had been three years eating grass like an ox.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
Now, from other records of Nabonidus, fourth in succession to nebuchadnezzar, we shall learn further that this temple did not come into Babylonian hands till the middle of the following century.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
A naval defeat sealed the fate of Miletus, whose citizens found, to the horror of all Greece, that, on occasion, the Persian would treat rebels like a loyal successor of Shalmaneser and nebuchadnezzar.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth