Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Ara, Araxes

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Araxes

（Ἀράξης). The name of several rivers.

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In Armenia, rising in Mt. Aba or Abus, joining the Cyrus, and falling with it into the Caspian Sea. The Araxes was proverbial for the force of its current.

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In Mesopotamia.

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In Persia, the river on which Persepolis stood, flowing into a salt lake not far below that city.

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It is doubtful whether the Araxes of Herodotus is the same as the Oxus, Iaxartes, or Volga.

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The Peneus in Thessaly.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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