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Antiochus the Great at Armosata
In the reign of Xerxes, prince of the city of Armosata, situated on the "Fair Plain," between
In the course of his campaigns for the recovering of the eastern provinces (B. C. 212-205).
Antiochus makes a demonstration before the city of Armosata, in Armenia, to recover the arrears of tribute owed by the late king, B. C. 212.
the Tigris and Euphrates, King Antiochus
encamped under its walls and prepared to
attack it. When he saw the king's forces,
Xerxes at first conveyed himself away; but
feeling afterwards that, if his palace were seized
by his enemies, his whole kingdom would be
overthrown, he changed his mind, and sent a
message to Antiochus declaring his wish for
a conference. The most loyal of the friends
of Antiochus were against letting the young
prince go when they once got him into their
hands, and advised Antiochus to take possession of the town,
and hand over the principality to Mithridates, his own sister's
son. The king, however, would not
Nature of the Euphrates River
The Euphrates rises in Armenia and flows through
Syria and the country beyond to Babylonia. It seems to
discharge itself into the Red Sea; but in point of fact it does
not do so: for its waters are dissipated among the ditches dug
across the fields before it reaches the sea. Accordingly the
nature of this river is the reverse of that of others. For in
other rivers the volume of water is increased in proportion to
the greater distance traversed, and they are at their highest in
winter and lowest in midsummer; but this river is fullest of
water at the rising of the dog-star, and has the
largest volume of water in Syria, which continually decreases as it advances. July 26. The reason of this is that the
increase is not caused by the collection of winter rains, but by
the melting of the snows; and its decrease by the diversion of
its stream into the land, and its subdivision
for the purposes of irrigation. The transport of the army
of Antiochus in his easter