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453 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter C
   It was the source, according to Ptolemy, of the river Cambyses; according to Mela and Pliny, of the Cyrus and Cambyses. (28.48)

2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter A
   Its course was E. of the Cambyses; and it seems to be the same as the Alazonius or Alazon of Strabo and Pliny (Alasan, Alacks) which fell into the Cambyses just above its confluence with the Cyrus. (23.75)

3. Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) book 3, chapter 14, section 8
   Wondering at what the king did, Cambyses made this inquiry of him by a messenger: “Psammenitus, Lord Cambyses wants to know why, seeing your daughter abused and your son going to his death, you did not cry out or weep, yet you showed such feeling for the beggar, who (as Cambyses learns from others) is not one of your kindred? (19.61)

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6 from Renaissance Materials

1. C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary entry Cambyses
   Cambyses:in King Cambyses' vein, in the ranting style of ‘King Cambyses, a lamentable Tragedy, mixed ful of pleasant mirth’ by Thomas Preston, - camel:great awkward hulking fellow , do, rudeness; do, camel; do, do. (12.29)

2. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Cambyses
   Cambyses, king of ancient Persia: I will do it in king C. vein, (allusion to Thomas Preston's "Lamentable Tragedy, mixed full of pleasant mirth, containing the life of Cambyses king of Persia"). (8.86)

3. William Shakespeare, King Henry IV., Part I (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 2, scene 4
   Fal. Give me a cup of sack
   to make my eyes look
   red, that it may be thought I
   have wept; for
   I must speak in passion, and I will do it
   in
   King Cambyses' vein. (6.37)

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1 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter S, entry 27943
   city poet; of Trinity College, Oxford; produced ‘Cambyses, King of Persia: a Tragedy,’ which was acted at Lincoln's Inn, 1666, and was first of a series of bombastic dramas which endangered at court Dryden's popularity as a dramatist; Dryden, in consequence, vented his resentment in second part of ‘Absalom and Achitophel,’ 1682; published ‘Absalom Senior, or Achitophel Transpros'd,’ 1682, and ‘Reflections on several of Mr. Dryden's Plays,’ 1687; wrote against Roman catholics; recanted, 1683, and published ‘A Narrative of the Popish Plot,’ exposing Oates's perjuries; appointed city poet, 1691; found employment soon after the revolution as writer of drolls for Bartholomew Fair; died in the Charterhouse. [li. (5.17)

1 from American Memory: California

1. A Gil Blas in California. By Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur page xxvi
   The history of the Egyptian, Menes; of the Babylonian, Nimrod; of the Assyrian, Belus; of Phul, of Nineveh; of the Mede, Arbaces; of the Persian, Cambyses; of the Syrian, Rohob; of Scamander, of Troy; of the Lydian, Meon; of Abibal of Tyre; of the Carthaginian, Dido; of the Numidian, Yarbas; of the Sicilian, Gelon; of the Albanian, Romulus; of the Etruscan, Porsena; of the Macedonian, Alexander; of the Roman, Cæsar; of the Frank, Clovis; of the Arabian, Mahomet; of the Teuton, Charlemagne; of the Frenchman, Hughes Capet; of the Florentine Medici; of the Genoan, Columbus; of Charles V of Flanders; of Henry of Gascony; of the Englishman, Newton; of the Muscovite, Pierre VI; of the American, Washington; of the Corsican, Bonaparte? (3.00)