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The Anabasis of Alexander

Note 921 — Chapter XVI

E. J. (Edward James) Chinnock translation

The Araxes, or Aras, joins the Cyrus, or Kour, and falls into the Caspian Sea. It is now called Kizil-Ozan, or Red River. Its Hebrew name is Chabor (2 Kings xvii. 6). Pontem indignatus Araxes (Vergil, Aeneid, viii. 728). See Aeschўlus (Prometheus, 736), Dr. Paley’s note.

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