http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Valerius_Maximus/9*.html#3.ext.4
I do not read latin, I used [http://translate.google.com] to translate it as follows, ergo the strange choppy translation: In the childish breast 9.3.ext.4 so great a force of hatred He could, but also in the equally as a woman 's a lot of value: for the queen Semiramis of the Assyrians, to that body about with his head at the service of this was told to Babylon, busy at an end and the hair "on the other side still loosed at once to the fight against it, he ran it, nor did into the order of the beauty of the hair, rather than the city reduced it into the power of his own. on account of which a statue of the Babylon, been assumed to be of that habit, which exacted for the revenge of the speed of a precipitous he hath stretched out.
The rough translation is speaking of Semiramis hearing of a rebellion amougnst her people whilst she was preparing for the day. She immediately ran out to the front of the army/people with her hair half curled, since she did not wish to wait until her hair dresser was finished to address the issue, and calmed her subjects. So taken were they by her and her beauty they erected a statue of her.
Excellent site for the University of Chicago, in the book 'Library of History' by Diodorus Siculus you may review information pertaining to Semiramis and Nimrod/Ninus in Chapters 1-6 available at this link below:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/2A*.html
Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian , more mention of Semiramis and Nimrod/Ninus:
http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=keautnyHFpkC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader
p 685 , 686 as seen here:
Note from 'The Two Babylons' by Alexander Hislop:
'Semiramis' - Sir H. Rawlinson having found evidence at Nineveh, of the existence of a Semiramis about six or seven centuries before the Christian era, seems inclined to regard her as the only Semiramis that ever existed. But this is subversive of all history. The fact that there was a Semiramis in the primeval ages of the world, is beyond all doubt (see Justin, Historia, p. 615 [unable to locate], and the historian Castor in Cory's Fragments, p. 65) on page 21.
