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H. means the north part of Media, Atropatene, which is mountainous and wooded; but the statement that the rest is flat (ἄπεδος), even by comparison, is an exaggeration. Hecataeus (fr. 172; F. H. G. i. 12) says περὶ τὴν Γ̔ρκανίην θάλασσαν οὔρεα ὑψηλὰ καὶ δασέα ὕλῃσι; on this resemblance among others Prášek (Klio, iv. 205) bases his theory that H. borrowed this part of his story from Hecataeus, but the borrowing is probably the other way; cf. Introd. § 20.

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