¶Capitulum 8
CAmbyses Cyrus sonne regned after his fader / Esdras cle¦peth him artarxerses & assuerus / Netheles in the story of iudith he is called nabugodonosor In this cambyses tyme bifell that is redde in thystory of Iudith / Trogus 189. And no won∣der though he were soo cleped for his owne fader Cyrus callyd him nabugodonosor and while he was a lyue he made this cam¦bises that was his owne sonne to regne twelue yere amonge the Assyryes in nynyue. ¶ But atte last whan his fader was deed· he helde the hole kyngdom of the eest eyght yere This cam¦bises suffred not the temple of Iherusalem to be buylde durynge all his tyme Also the first yere of his hole kyngdom he slough Arphaxath that wolde haue regned in Media / while he wold be worshiped in stede of god of Israel as he was ouerall Iudith the wydowe slough Olyfernes the prynce of his hooste in the Siege of Bethulia the second yere of his empyre Than Cambyses the fyfth yere of his kyngdome destroyed E∣gypte / He forsoke the vsages therof and destroyed the temple and buyld Babylonia in egypt / And whan he torned thens / he dyed in Damask the viij yere of his kyngdome.