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| 1 | 1 | Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana, | Arfaxat itaque rex Medorum subiugaverat multas gentes imperio suo et ipse aedificavit civitatem potentissimam quam appellavit Igbathanis |
| 1 | 2 | Of stones squared and hewed: he made the walls thereof seventy cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, and the towers thereof he made a hundred cubits high. But on the square of them, each side was extended the space of twenty feet. | ex lapidibus quadratis et sectis fecit muros eius in altitudine cubitorum septuaginta et in latitudine cubitorum triginta turres vero eius posuit in altitudinem cubitorum centum |
| 1 | 3 | And he made the gates thereof according to the height of the towers: | per quadrum vero earum latus utrumque vicenorum pedum spatio tendebatur posuitque portas eius in altitudine turrium |
| 1 | 4 | And he gloried as a mighty one in the force of his army and in the glory of his chariots. | et gloriabatur quasi potens in potentia exercitus sui et in gloria quadrigarum suarum |
| 1 | 5 | Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him, | anno igitur duodecimo regni sui Nabuchodonosor rex Assyriorum qui regnabat in Nineven civitatem magnam pugnavit contra Arfaxat et obtinuit eum |
| 1 | 6 | In the great plain which is called Ragua, about the Euphrates, and the Tigris, and the Jadason, in the plain of Erioch the king of the Elicians. | in campo magno qui appellatur Ragau circa Eufraten et Tigrin et Hyadas in campo Erioch regis Elicorum |
| 1 | 7 | Then was the kingdom of Nabuchodonosor exalted, and his heart was elevated: and he sent to all that dwelt in Cilicia and Damascus, and Libanus, | tunc exaltatum est regnum Nabuchodonosor et cor eius elatum est et misit ad omnes qui habitabant in Cilicia et Damasco et Libano |
| 1 | 8 | And to the nations that are in Carmelus, and Cedar, and to the inhabitants of Galilee in the great plain of Asdrelon, | et ad gentes quae sunt in Carmelo et Cedar et inhabitantes Galileam in campo magno Hesdraelon |
| 1 | 9 | And to all that were in Samaria, and beyond the river Jordan even to Jerusalem, and all the land of Jesse till you come to the borders of Ethiopia. | et ad omnes qui erant in Samaria et trans flumen Iordanem usque Hierusalem et omnem terram Iesse quousque perveniatur ad montes Aethiopiae |
| 1 | 10 | To all these Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, sent messengers: | ad hos omnes misit nuntios Nabuchodonosor rex Assyriorum |
| 1 | 11 | But they all with one mind refused, and sent them back empty, and rejected them without honour. | qui omnes uno animo contradixerunt et remiserunt eos vacuos ac sine honore abiecerunt |
| 1 | 12 | Then king Nabuchodonosor being angry against all that land, swore by his throne and kingdom that he would revenge himself of all those countries. | tunc indignatus est Nabuchodonosor rex ad omnem terram illam et iuravit per regnum et thronum suum quod defenderet se de omnibus regionibus his |