Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Arabian Gulf” in book 2, chapter 158, section 4 of Herodotus, The Histories:
..."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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