So when they all came with sickles as ordered, Cyrus commanded them to reclaim in one day a thorny tract of Iran [53,32] (nation), Asia Persia , of two and one quarter or two and one half miles each way in extent.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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