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[2] κεῖται δὲ ἡ χώρα τῇ μὲν Ἀρμενίᾳ1 [p. 735] πρὸς ἕω τῇ δὲ μεγάλῃ Μηδίᾳ πρὸς δύσιν, πρὸς ἄρκτον δ᾽ ἀμφοτέραις: τοῖς δὲ περὶ τὸν μυχὸν τῆς Ὑρκανίας θαλάττης καὶ τῇ Ματιανῇ ἀπὸ νότου παράκειται. ἔστι δ᾽ οὐ μικρὰ κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν, ὥς φησιν Ἀπολλωνίδης, ἥ γε καὶ μυρίους ἱππέας δύναται παρέχεσθαι, πεζῶν δὲ τέτταρας μυριάδας. λίμνην δ᾽ ἔχει τὴν Καπαῦτα, ἐν ᾗ ἅλες ἐπανθοῦντες πήττονται: εἰσὶ δὲ κνησμώδεις καὶ ἐπαλγεῖς: ἔλαιον δὲ τοῦ πάθους ἄκος, ὕδωρ δὲ γλυκὺ τοῖς καπυρωθεῖσιν ἱματίοις, εἴ τις κατ᾽ ἄγνοιαν βάψειεν εἰς αὐτὴν πλύσεως χάριν. ἔχουσι δ᾽ ἰσχυροὺς γείτονας τοὺς Ἀρμενίους καὶ τοὺς Παρθυαίους, ὑφ᾽ ὧν περικόπτονται πολλάκις: ἀντέχουσι δ᾽ ὅμως καὶ ἀπολαμβάνουσι τὰ ἀφαιρεθέντα, καθάπερ τὴν Συμβάκην ἀπέλαβον παρὰ τῶν Ἀρμενίων ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίοις γεγονότων, καὶ αὐτοὶ προσεληλύθασι τῇ φιλίᾳ τῇ πρὸς Καίσαρα: θεραπεύουσι δ᾽ ἅμα καὶ τοὺς Παρθυαίους.
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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- LSJ, ἐπαλγ-ής
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- LSJ, κνησ-μώδης
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