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And Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon , then for the first time, was taken in this way. I shall show how great the power of Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon is by many other means, but particularly by this. All the land that the great King rules is parcelled out to provision him and his army, and pays tribute besides: now the territory of Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon feeds him for four of the twelve months in the year, the whole of the rest of Asia (continent) Asia providing for the other eight.
And Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon , then for the first time, was taken in this way. I shall show how great the power of Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon is by many other means, but particularly by this. All the land that the great King rules is parcelled out to provision him and his army, and pays tribute besides: now the territory of Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia Babylon feeds him for four of the twelve months in the year, the whole of the rest of Asia (continent) Asia providing for the other eight.
[2] Thus the wealth of
Assyria is one third of the entire wealth of
Asia (continent)
Asia
. The governorship of this land, which the
Persians call “satrapy,” is by far the most powerful of all the governorships, since the daily income of
Tritantaechmes son of
Artabazus, who governed this province by the king's will, was an artaba full of silver
[3] (the artaba is a
Persian measure, containing more than an Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes),
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and besides warhorses he had eight hundred stallions in his stables, and sixteen thousand brood mares, each stallion servicing twenty mares.
[4] Moreover he kept so great a number of
Indian dogs that four great villages of the plain were appointed to provide food for the dogs and exempted from all other burdens. Such were the riches of the governor of
Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, Asia
Babylon
.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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