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Given that we're currently talking about his valuable contribution to oriental lore, probably worth noting that he got his own section of Sir Thomas Browne's book on noted liars and frauds. — $Llywelyn II$ 15:44, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Brown was writing before the decypherment of the cuneiform script. I don't see why his opinion, or Lucian's, is relevant. 173.66.5.216 (talk) 22:35, 24 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Britannica cites him as a source for early Greek knowledge of Persepolis. prokaryotes (talk) 15:51, 16 October 2017 (UTC)Reply