Library Diodorus Siculus Library of History, Book II
Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Further works in Media and elsewhere
Diodorus’s Assyrian narrative here follows Ctesias’s Persica (Ninus and Semiramis). Ctesias does not use the name Nimrod.
Now concerning the wonders of Babylonia let what has been said suffice.
English translation by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library (1933). Public domain. Digital text via Bill Thayer / LacusCurtius (University of Chicago).