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[6] Next he came to a land which could support enormous herds of horses, where of old they say that there were one hundred and sixty thousand horses grazing, but at the time of Alexander's visit there were counted only sixty thousand.1 After a stay of thirty days he resumed the march and on the seventh day came to Ecbatana of Media.

1 This was Nysa. Arrian. 7.13.1 gives slightly different figures: formerly 150,000 mares, now 50,000.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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