And there was found at Achmetha
Which Jarchi and Aben Ezra take to be the name of a vessel in
which letters and writings were put for safety; but it was no
doubt the name of a place; the Vulgate Latin version has it
Ecbatana; and so Josephus F19; which was the name of a
city in Media, where the kings of that country had their
residence in the summer time F20; for it has its name from
heat F21; the Persian kings dwelt at Shushan
in the winter, and at Ecbatana in the summer {w}; hence they are
compared by Aelian F24 to cranes, birds of passage,
because of their going to and from the above places:
in the palace that is in the province of the
Medes,
here was found
a roll;
which was the decree of Cyrus, which perhaps he took with him
when he went thither:
and therein was a record thus written;
as follows.
F19 Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 6.
F20 Curtius, l. 5. c. 8. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 6.
F21 Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 618.
F23 Athen. Deipnosophist, l. 12. c. 1.
F24 De Animal. l. 3. c. 13.