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Antiochus Marches Through Mesopotamia
When Antiochus had reached the Euphrates, and had
B. C. 221-220. Antiochus advances through Mesopotamia.
taken over the force stationed there, he once
more started on his march and got as far as Antioch, in Mygdonia, about mid-winter, and there
remained until the worst of the winter should
be over. Thence after a stay of forty days he advanced to
Libba. Molon was now in the neighbourhood of Babylon:
and Antiochus consulted his council as to the route to be
pursued, the tactics to be adopted, and the source from which
provisions could best be obtained for his army on the march
in their expedition against Molon. The proposal of Hermeias
was to march along the Tigris, with this river, and the Lycus
and Caprus, on their flank. Zeuxis, having the fate of
Epigenes before his eyes, was in a state of painful doubt
whether to speak his real opinion or no; but as the mistake
involved in the advice of Hermeias was flagrant, he at last
mustered courage to a
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