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Thus Astyages was deposed from his sovereignty after a reign of thirty-five years: and the Medes had to bow down before the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had ruled all Asia beyond the Halys for one hundred and twenty-eight years,1 from which must be subtracted the time when the Scythians held sway.

1 687 to 559 B.C. The Scythians ruled 634-606 B.C.

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