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I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
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Verse 3. Live; an usual salutation. Daniel 3:9 and 5:10. So Ælian (var. i. 32.) says, “O king Artaxerxes, mayst thou reign for ever.”—Father, verse 5. He knew that the Persians shewed great regard to the dead, ( Calmet. Tirinus.) whose bodies they sometimes cover with wax, and keep in their house, (Cic. Tusc. i. Alex. Genial iii. 2.) or inter. Herod. i. 140.
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