Arphaxad: a king who reigned over the Medes in Ecbatana
and strenghtened the city by vast fortifications, and was afterward entirely
defeated, taken and slain by Nabuchodonosor, king of Assyria; frequently identified with
Deioces, the founder of Ecbatana; but more like his son Phraortes, who fell in a battle
with the Assyrians, 668 BC. [1.114#70]
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