From that time on his empire was bounded on the east by the Indian Ocean , on the north by the Black Sea , on the west by Cyprus and Egypt , and on the south by Ethiopia . The extremes of his empire are uninhabitable, on the one side because of the heat, on another because of the cold, on another because of too much water, and on the fourth because of too little.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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