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214 | Belshazzar fought only one battle with in which he was overcome and put to flight, Ahd was obliged, for his personal safety, to retire into the city. From that time, the gates of the city were kept shut, and the besieged Babylonians ventured out no more. Belshazzar had then reigned about fifteen years. Notocris, the mother of Belshazzar, had not been, from the first, inattentive to the proceedings of Cyrus. Proceeding with much foresight and skill, she spared no pains in fortifying the city, and supplying it with a large store of provisions. She had likewise completed all those works of strength which Nebuchadnezzar had left us finished, and had even caused a gallery or arched passage, to be made under the river, connecting the two palaces; so that even if the river and bridge should be occupied by an enemy, there might be a safe passage between the ಘಿಸಿ parts of the city, for the transmission of intelligence and the crossing of troops as required. Daniel had, some time before this, returned to Babylon. The city of Shushan, with the province of