|a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with
prizes for the best costumes.| |a chattering or flighty, light-
headed person.| (In the inscriptions, "Sarra-yukin" [the god]
has appointed the king; also "Sarru-kinu," the legitimate king.)
On the death of Shalmaneser (B.C. 723), one of the Assyrian
generals established himself on the vacant throne, taking the
name of "Sargon," after that of the famous monarch, the Sargon
of Accad, founder of the first Semitic empire, as well as of one
of the most famous libraries of Chaldea. He forthwith began a
conquering career, and became one of the most powerful of the
Assyrian monarchs. He is mentioned by name in the Bible only in
connection with the siege of Ashdod (Isa. 20:1). At the very
beginning of his reign he besieged and took the city of Samaria
(2 Kings 17:6; 18:9-12). On an inscription found in the palace
he built at Khorsabad, near Nieveh, he says, "The city of
Samaria I besieged, I took; 27,280 of its inhabitants I carried
away; fifty chariots tha