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NINUS , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, the See also:eponymous founder of See also:Nineveh (q.v.), and thus the See also:city itself personified. He was said to have been the son of Belos or See also:Bel, to have conquered in seventeen years the whole of western See also:Asia with the help of Ariaeus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Arabia, and to have founded the first See also:empire. During the See also:siege of Bactra he met See also:Semiramis, the wife of one of his See also:officers, Onnes, whom he took from her See also:husband and married. The See also:fruit of the See also:marriage was Ninyas, i.e. " The Ninevite." After the See also:death of Ninus, Semiramis, who was accused of causing it, erected to him a See also:temple-See also:tomb, nine stades high and ten stades broad, near See also:Babylon. According to See also:Castor (ap. Syncell. p. 167) his reign lasted fifty-two years, its commencement falling 2189 B.C. according to See also:Ctesias. Another Ninus is described by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh, successor of See also:Sardanapalus.
See J. See also:Gilmore, Fragments of the Persika of Ktesias (1888).
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