Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Syria” in book 2, chapter 20, section 3 of Herodotus, The Histories:
...re the cause, then the other rivers which flow contrary to those winds should be affected like the Nile, and even more so, since being smaller they have a weaker current. Yet there are many rivers in Syria and many in Libya, and they behave nothing like the Nile.
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