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[11] Upon this foundation was built a wall of brick, fifty feet in breadth and a hundred in height; and the circuit of the wall was six parasangs. Here, as the story goes, Medea, the king's1 wife, took refuge at the time when the Medes were deprived of their empire by the Persians.

1 Astyages, the last king of Media.

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