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CHARACTER, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, ARTS, ETC., OF THE PEOPLE.
"Pugnatrix natio et formidanda."-- Amm.

Marc, xxiii.

6.
The ethnic character of the Median people is at the present day scarcely a matter of doubt.

The close connection which all history, sacred and profane, establishes between them and the Persians, the evidence of their proper names and of their language, so far as it is known to us, together with the express statements of Herodotus and Strabo, combine to prove that they belonged to that branch of the human family known to us as the Arian or Iranic, a leading subdivision of the great Indo-European race.