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[3] (the artaba is a Persian measure, containing more than an Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes),1 and besides warhorses he had eight hundred stallions in his stables, and sixteen thousand brood mares, each stallion servicing twenty mares.

1 The Attic medimnus = about 12 gallons; it contained 48χοίνικες.

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