'I know of a Babylonian,' he said, 'what they call a Chaldaean; I will go and fetch him at once, and he will put the man right.'. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
And I tell you, great and wise father-in-law, that the Chaldaean is a true seer, never wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
The principal advenæ are the Noachians, a great Chaldaean or. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The porters of the town are all Kurds, the river-men Chaldaean. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
“He was a Chaldaean, and seer to the King of the Parthians.”. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Orobazus told the Chaldaean seer, the Nabopolassar, to scan the palm and face of the Roman. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
These troops were Armenian and Mardian and Chaldaean mercenaries belonging to Orontas and Artuchas. From Wordnik.com. [Anabasis] Reference
The Nabopolassar had seen it in him on the banks of the river Euphrates, and not even the gods could delude a Chaldaean seer. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
"Chaldaean wisdom" became in the classical world the synonym of this science, which in its character was so essentially religious. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Chaldaean coast, and then took with him into Assyria. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
But where the Chaldaean vision ended, Ezekiel's only began. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of Life and Other Sermons] Reference
Chaldaean hastened to strengthen himself by marrying his son. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient East] Reference
(Persia), and was unable to co-operate with the Chaldaean king of. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Baladan, the Chaldaean king, whom Sargon had deposed, supported by. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Chaldaean and Susianian whom he transported across the gulf to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
A Chaldaean king, Merodach Baladan III, had allied himself with the. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Susub, a Chaldaean prince, was again in arms against his authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
The Chaldaean females, as represented by the Assyrians, are tall and large-limbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Women, he says, should be kept at home, and no Chaldaean or soothsayer be allowed to see them. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Fish are abundant in the Chaldaean marshes, and in almost all the fresh-water lakes and rivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
A certain amount of real meteorological knowledge was probably mixed up with the Chaldaean astrology. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Thus Varro categorizes the Sibyls, and besides these we hear of a Hebrew, a Chaldaean, a Babylonian, an. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference
However, to my mind, such are the only arguments by which the Chaldaean theology can be satisfactorily upset. From Wordnik.com. [Hasisadra's Adventure] Reference
Greek, without which a man may be ashamed to account himself a scholar, Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldaean, and Latin. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference
Finding Elam was unable to help him, he took refuge in the Chaldaean capital, Bit Jakin, in southern Babylonia. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
The reports illustrate the practical application of what became known in the ancient world as "Chaldaean wisdom.". From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Tendencies to such an exaggeration of the Sabbath rest as would make it absolute are found from the Chaldaean period. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
Chaldaean from earlier Semitic waves, Canaanite and Aramaean, had breathed fresh vitality into the Babylonian people. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient East] Reference
Revolt was declared; and in a very short time the Chaldaean army, with Nebuchadnezzar at its head, lay before Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
The seven stages represented the Seven Spheres, in which moved (according to ancient Chaldaean astronomy) the seven planets. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
One of these was an expedition by Sennacharib against the coast of the Persian Gulf, to which his Chaldaean enemies had fled. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
What, then, could be more natural than that a Chaldaean poet should seek for the incidents of a great catastrophe among such phenomena?. From Wordnik.com. [Hasisadra's Adventure] Reference
The Chaldaean priests, the earliest astronomers, would have allowed him to take his observations from the summit of the great temple of. From Wordnik.com. [An Egyptian Princess — Complete] Reference
Merodach-Baladin suffered mutilation, A Chaldaean prince and one of the chieftains of the Clambulu had their tongues torn out by the roots. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
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