The city rights and usages were respected by kings and conquerors alike.
The first are the descendants of the Magyar conquerors.
We know from the Assyrian inscriptions that just at the time which Herodotus assigns to Deioces the Medes were divided into numerous small principalities and subjected to the great Assyrian conquerors.
Their promulgation aroused a storm among the conquerors.
His chief object was to reconcile the Greeks to the rule of Rome, by dilating upon the good qualities of their conquerors.