Pergamus

Permia. See Troy. Moscovia (1) 8. 473, 475. A part of eastern Ru ia, bordering on Siberia. We read in Hakluyt: “The Permians and Samoits, that lie from Ru ia North and Northeast are thought likewise to have their beginnings from the Tartar kinde. The Permians are accounted for a very ancient people. They are no we subject to the Ru e. They live by hunting and trading with their furres, as also doth the Samoit, that dwelleth more to war des the North Sea.”... (1.491.) Perse polis. P. R. 3. 284. An ancient city of southern Persia, now ruined. writes as follows: Diodorus Alexander “then called the Maced on i ans and told them that Perse polis, the metropolis of the kingdom of Persia, of all the cities of Asia had done most mischief to the Grecians, and therefore he gave it up to the plunder and spoil of the soldiers, except the king’s palace. This was the richest city of any under the sun, and for many ages all the private houses were full of all sorts of wealth, and whatever was together, The Maced on i ans, therefore, forcing into the city, put all the men to the sword, and rifled and carried away every man’s goods and estate, amongst which was abundance of rich and costly furniture and ornaments of all sorts. In this place desirable. was hurried away here and there vast quantities of silver, and no le of gold, great numbers of rich garments, some of purple, other embroidered with gold, all which became a plentiful spoil to the ravenous soldiers: and thus the great seat-royal of the Persians, once famous all the world over, was now exposed to scorn from top to bottom. … So that by how much Perse polis excelled all the other cities in glory and worldly felicity, by so much more was the measure of their misery and calamity. Then Alexander seized upon all the treasures in the citadel, which was a vast quantity of gold and silver of the public revenues that had been there collected and laid up, from the time of Cyrus, the first great king of Persia, to that day. For there was found a hundred and twenty you sand talents, reckoning the gold after the rate of silver.” He describes the palace as follows: “This stately fabric, or citadel, was surrounded with a treble the first was sixteen cubits high, adorned with many sumptuous buildings and aspiring turrets. The second was like to the first, but as high again as the other. The third was drawn wall: like a quadrant, foursquare, sixty cubits high, all of the hardest On the four marble, and so cemented as to continue for ever. sides are brazen gates, near to which are gallowses of bra twenty cubits high; these raised to terrify the beholders, and the other On the for the better strengthening and fortifying of the palace. east side of the citadel, about four hundred feet distant, stood a mount called the Royal Mount, for here are all the sepulchres of the kings, many apartments and little cells being cut into the midst of the rock; into which there is made no direct pa age, but the coffins with the dead bodies are by instruments hoisted up, and so let down into these vaults. In this citadel are many stately lodgings, both for the king and his soldiers, of excellent workmanship, and treasury chambers most commodiously contrived for the laying up of money.” (17. 70.) Persia (Achaemenius, Persis). Brit. (2) 5. 45; Lit. Senat. Christ. (2. 11) 382. 2. Eleg. (44) 1. 7. 65; P. L. 11. 393; Hist. 235; (45) 237; Doct. 7. (See also Bactria, Ecbatan, Hispahan, Tauris, Casbeen.) A country of Asia extending from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean. In the time of Milton it had been visited and number of English men, and their accounts are given by Hakluyt and Purchas. The reign of Shah Abbas (15861628) was a period of prosperity. described by a Persian Bay (Gulf). P. L. 11. 829; P. R. 3. 258, 273. (See also ch231.xhtml o 245