Strabo, Geography, Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator), 16.1.4

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[4] After Arbela and the mountain Nicatorium¹ (a name which Alexander, after the victory at Arbela, superadded), is the river Caprus,² situated at the same distance from Arbela as the Lycus. The country is called Artacene.³ Near Arbela is the city Demetrias; next is the spring of naphtha, the fires, the temple of the goddess Anaea,⁴ Sadracae, the palace of Darius, son of Hystaspes, the Cyparisson, or plantation of Cypresses, and the passage across the Caprus, which is close to Seleucia and Babylon.

Geography. Strabo. Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator). London. 1854-1857.

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Geography (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.)

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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 16.1.4 focus

[4] μετὰ δὲ Ἄρβηλα καὶ τὸ Νικατόριον ὄρος (ὃ προσωνόμασεν Ἀλέξανδρος νικήσας τὴν περὶ Ἄρβηλα μάχην) ὁ Κάπρος ἐστὶ ποταμὸς ἐν ἴσῳ διαστήματι ὅσῳ καὶ ὁ Λύκος· ἡ δὲ χώρα * Ἀρτακηνὴ λέγεται. περὶ Ἄρβηλα δὲ ἔστι καὶ Δημητριὰς πόλις· εἶθʼ ἡ τοῦ νάφθα πηγὴ καὶ τὰ πυρὰ καὶ τὸ τῆς * Ἀναίας ἱερὸν καὶ Σαδράκαι, τὸ Δαρείου τοῦ Ὑστάσπεω βασίλειον, καὶ ὁ Κυπαρισσὼν καὶ ἡ τοῦ Κάπρου διάβασις συνάπτουσα ἤδη Σελευκείᾳ καὶ Βαβυλῶνι.

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1. Probably a branch of the Karadgeh-dagh.

2. The Little Zab, or Or.

3. As the name Artacene occurs nowhere else, Groskurd, following Cellarius (v. Geogr. Ant. i. 771), suspects that here we ought to read Arbelene, and would understand by it the same district which is called Arbelitis by Ptolemy, vi. 1, and by Pliny, H. N. vi. 13, § 16, but as this form of the national name is nowhere to be found, it would appear improper to introduce it into the text. It is more probable, continues Kramer, that Strabo wrote Adiabene, of which Arbelitis was a part, according to Pliny, loco citato.

4. The same, no doubt, as the goddess Anaitis. B. xi. c. viii. § 4, and b. xv. c. iii. §15.

Strabo Geography 16.1.4

Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator)

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