Note 46 — Chapter V
J. S. (John Selby) Watson translation
Επὶ Πύλας.] A strait or defile through which the road lay from Mesopotamia into Babylonia; hence called the Pylæ Babyloniæ. It is mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus sub voce Χαρμάνδη. Ainsworth, p. 80, places it fourteen miles north of Felújah, and a hundred and eight miles north of Babylon.