Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Syria” in book 2, chapter 158, section 4 of Herodotus, The Histories:
..."ptext" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> Now the shortest and most direct passage from the northern to the southern or Red Sea is from the Casian promontory, the boundary between Egypt and Syria , to the Arabian Gulf, and this is a distance of one hundred and twenty five miles, neither more nor less;
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