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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARBACES , according to See also:

Ctesias (Diodor. ii. 24 if. 32) one of the generals of See also:Sardanapalus, See also:king of See also:Assyria and founder of the Median See also:empire about 83o B.C. But Ctesias's whole See also:history of the See also:Assyrian .and Median empires is absolutely fabulous; his Arbaces and his successors are not See also:historical personages. From the See also:inscriptions of See also:Sargon of Assyria we know one " Arbaku Dynast of Arnashia " as one of See also:forty-five chiefs of Median districts who paid See also:tribute to Sargon in 713 B.C. See See also:MEDIA. (ED.

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