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Antiochus the Great In Media
Arsaces expected that Antiochus would come as far as
The nature of the desert between Media and Parthia.
this district (of Media), but that he would not
venture to proceed across the adjoining desert
with so large a force, if for no other reason, yet
from the scarcity of water. For in this tract of
country there is no water appearing on the surface, though
there are many subterranean channels which have well-shafts
sunk to them, at spots in the desert unknown to pe his cavalry in the act
of choking up the shafts which went down into the underground channels. They promptly attacked these men, and,
having routed and forced them to fly, returned back again to
Antiochus. Antiochus arrives at Hecatompylos. The king, having thus accomplished
the journey across the desert, arrived before the
city Hecatompylos, which is situated in the
centre of Parthia, and derives its name from the fact that the
roads which lead to all the surrounding districts converge there.
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 11 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 2 (search)