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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 52 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Epictetus, Works (ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Epictetus, Works (ed. George Long) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson). You can also browse the collection for Euphrates or search for Euphrates in all documents.
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Thence he marched through Arabia, keeping the Euphrates on the right, five stages through desert country, thirty-five parasangs. In this region the ground was an unbroken plain, as level as the sea, and full of wormwood; and whatever else there was on the plain by way of shrub or reed, was always fragrant, like spices;
trees there were none, but wild animals of all sorts, vast numbers of wild asses and many ostriches, besides bustards and gazelles. These animals were sometimes chased by the horsemen. As for the asses, whenever one chased them, they would run on ahead and stop—for they ran much faster than the horses—and then, when the horses came near, they would do the same thing again, and it was impossible to catch them unless the horsemen posted themselves at intervals and hunted them in relays. The flesh of those that were captured was like venison, but more tender.
But no ostrich was captured by anyone, and any horseman who chased one speedily desisted; for it would distance him