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ἅπασαν. Used loosely for ‘the main army’, as two other contingents are at once mentioned.


ἕλος. Cf. 185. 4, 5 nn.

ὑπονοστήσαντος, ‘when the river had sunk’ (cf. iv. 62. 2).


For Aristotle's account of the capture of Babylon, which even exaggerates the one here, cf. 178. 2 n.

ὁρτήν. The ‘feast’ agrees with the well-known story in Dan. v.

πρῶτον. H. calls it ‘the first’ capture, in contrast to that by Darius (iii. 158). No doubt, however, he heard in Babylon nothing of Assyrian captures, e.g. by Assurbanipal in 648 B. C.

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