Quotes About Mede

Treachery, said the Mede. Diplomacy, said Attolia, in my own name.

You will make the boy Thief king? he said. When you could have had me? Attolia allowed a slight smile. A fine revenge for the loss of a hand, said the Mede, close to snarling. I will have my sovereignty, said Attolia thinly. Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make, spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. Or do I insult your lover? he asked. Not a lover, said Attolia. Merely my choice for king.

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes, a Mede by descent, who was made ruler over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—