NINUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, the See also:

• EPONYMOUS

eponymous founder of See also:

• NINEVEH (Heb. m}'?, in classical authors Nivos, Ninus; LXX. Ntsetni, Nnveun: Assyrian Nind or Ninua)

Nineveh (q.v.), and thus the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city itself personified . He was said to have been the son of Belos or See also:

• BEL

Bel, to have conquered in seventeen years the whole of western See also:

• ASIA

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

Arabia, and to have founded the first See also:

• EMPIRE

empire . During the See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of Bactra he met See also:

• SEMIRAMIS (c. 800 B.C.)

Semiramis, the wife of one of his See also:

• OFFICERS

officers, Onnes, whom he took from her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband and married . The See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage was Ninyas, i.e . " The Ninevite." After the See also:

• DEATH

death of Ninus, Semiramis, who was accused of causing it, erected to him a See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple-See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb, nine stades high and ten stades broad, near See also:

• BABYLON (mod. Hillah)

Babylon . According to See also:

• CASTOR

Castor (ap . Syncell. p . 167) his reign lasted fifty-two years, its commencement falling 2189 B.C. according to See also:

• CTESIAS

Ctesias . Another Ninus is described by some authorities as the last king of Nineveh, successor of See also:

• SARDANAPALUS, or SARDANAPALLUS

Sardanapalus . See J . See also:

• GILMORE, PATRICK SARSFIELD (1829-1892)

Gilmore, Fragments of the Persika of Ktesias (1888) .