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κατὰ τοῦτο. Translate ‘In this way she wrought (in that part of) her country where were the entrances, and the shortest way from Media’; cf. iv. 136. 2 for τὰ σύντομα. The territory of Assyria was now in the Median hands (cf. for its being called ‘Media’ Xen. Anab. ii. 4. 27), and so the natural line of attack (ἐσβολαί) would be down the right bank of the Tigris.

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