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Ardericca in Cissia (cf. iii. 91. 4), not the village on the Euphrates (i. 185. 2), may be at Kir-Ab, thirty-five miles from Susa, where there are remains of an ancient road and town, and where bitumen is still collected in the way described by H. His description suggests a visit, though the phrase μέχρι ἐμέο (§ 4) does not affirm it (cf. Introd. § 16 (4)). Strabo (747) places Eretrians in Gordyene on the upper Tigris, but H. is supported by the epigram of Plato, Anth. Pal. vii. 259 Εὐβοίης γένος ἐσμὲν Ἐρετρικόν, ἄγχι δὲ Σούσων κείμεθα: φεῦ, γαίης ὅσσον ἀπ᾽ ἡμετέρης.

σταθμῷ, ‘station’ (v. 52. 1); here settlement of dependents on a crown domain.

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