Ezra 6:2
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
And there was found at Achmetha,.... Which Jarchi and Aben Ezra take to be the name of a vessel in which letters and writings were put for safety; but it was no doubt the name of a place; the Vulgate Latin version has it Ecbatana; and so Josephus {s}; which was the name of a city in Media, where the kings of that country had their residence in the summer time {t}; for it has its name from heat {u}; the Persian kings dwelt at Shushan in the winter, and at Ecbatana in the summer {w}; hence they are compared by Aelian {x} to cranes, birds of passage, because of their going to and from the above places:
in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, here was found
a roll; which was the decree of Cyrus, which perhaps he took with him when he went thither:
and therein was a record thus written; as follows.
{s} Antiqu. l. 11. c. 4. sect. 6.
{t} Curtius, l. 5. c. 8. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 6.
{u} Hiller. Onomastic. Sacr. p. 618.
{w} Athen. Deipnosophist, l. 12. c. 1.
{x} De Animal. l. 3. c. 13.