The third interior wall which surrounded the buildings was twenty stades in circuit, but in height and thickness it surpassed the middle wall.
About thirty or forty stades above the mouth of the canal is a table-land, on which lies a hamlet and a palace made up of as many palaces as there are districts in Egypt.
The eastern side of Egypt also he fortified against the inroads of Arabians and Syrians, by building a wall of about 1,500 stades long through the desert from Pelusium to Heliopolis.
The road was built of smoothed stones five stades in length, ten fathoms broad, and at the highest places thirty-two fathoms high; and it was intended to convey the materials from the Arabian side of the river.
He carried a canal 300 feet in breadth from the river for eighty stades (about ten miles) to the lake, through which he first admitted the superfluous water and then drew it off.
In addition the king built a wall 1,500 stades in length, from Pelusium to Heliopolis, as a security against inroads from Syria and Arabia.
The circumference was forty stades in length, and the wall was three hundred bricks in thickness; the height, according to Ctesias, was fifty fathoms, and the tower rose to sixty fathoms.
Reckoning eight and one-third stades to a mile, the number of stades will be four thousand four hundred and fifty-eight.
It is plain, therefore, that tenstades will admit of only sixteen thousand men, and twenty twice that number.
On the fifth day he reached the Great Plains, and during the first day after his arrival encamped on a piece of rising ground about thirty stades from the enemy.
If we suppose this to have been accomplished at an even speed in the nine days, he would make two thousand five hundred stades a day.
And when the three thousand stades from the Peloponnese to the straits are added, the whole number of the stadeseven of the straight sea course will be more than double Dicaearchus’s reckoning.
The third wall, that in the middle, was twenty stades round .
Then the Persians, though no one was fighting against them, were seized with a panic; they ran away about sixty stades and there encamped till a messenger of Aryandes called them back.
At the foot of the rock there was a park (paradisus) twelve stadesin the circuit.
According to Polyaenus, Chalcedon was taken by a mine, which was carried from a hill 15 stades from the city under the market-place.
At the same time he built eight great fortresses, at equal distances, each about sixty stades from the other, the remains of which, Herodotus remarks, existed in his day.
The mouths of the river Indus are about 1800 stades distant from each other.
The circuit of the rock is said to be about 200 stades (i.
The headland and island were 150 stades distant from his great camp.
When therefore he saw the barbarians running out, he ordered the Macedonians to turn round and retreat to a certain hill distant something about seven stades from the place where he had resolved to encamp.
The fertile spot in the midst of this desert, is not extensive; for where it stretches into its greater expanse, it is only about forty stades broad.
Alexander constructed a mole seven stadeslong from the coast to the island, thus forming the two harbours of Alexandria.
A town in Boeotia, on the lake Copais, distant 50 stades north-west of Thebes.
But when Alexander was only thirty stades distant from the enemy, and his army was already marching down from the hills just mentioned, catching sight of the foreigners, he caused his phalanx to halt there.
But he himself continued his voyage down the river Hydaspes, the channel of which is nowhere less than twenty stades broad.
And he sent Magnus and Sinthues the guardsman, who took with them about five hundred men, to the fortress of Tibur, one hundred and forty stadesdistant from Rome.
It is in this city of Cumae that the inhabitants point out the cave of the Sibyl, where they say her oracular shrine was; and Cumae is on the sea, one hundred and twenty-eight stadesdistant from Naples.
Now as the Tiber flows down from Rome, and reaches a point rather near the sea, about fifteen stades from it, the stream divides into two parts and makes there the Sacred Island, as it is called.
These two aqueducts meet at a place fifty stades distant from Rome[143] and cross each other, so that for a little space they reverse their relative position.
W]And when he drew near to Rome, and was not more than fourteen stades away from it, he came upon a bridge over the Tiber River.
Now there is a certain church of the Apostle Paul,[146] fourteen stades distant from the fortifications of Rome, and the Tiber River flows beside it.
Accordingly, when they heard that Naples had been captured, they began immediately to make all these charges against him openly and gathered at a place two hundred and eighty stades distant from Rome, which the Romans call Regata.
For this city of Ravenna lies in a level plain at the extremity of the Ionian Gulf, lacking two stades of being on the sea, and it is so situated as not to be easily approached either by ships or by a land army.
And it is about eighty stades distant from the city of Auximus, whose port it is.
This locality is opposite the City, twenty-six stades distant.
In the case of the great temple of Belus at Babylon, the enclosure is said to have been a square of two stades each way, or, in other words, to have contained an area of thirty acres.
Herodotus describes the great temple as contained within a square enclosure, two stades (nearly a quarter of a mile) both in length and breadth.
The longer sides were 80, the shorter sides 15, stades in length.
Indus is 100 stades in breadth, and even broader; Megasthenes also relates that the elephants tore down walls, and that the bamboo was a fathom in thickness.
Herodotus gives the extent of the walls of Babylon at one hundred and twenty stades on each side, or four hundred and eighty stades in circumference.
Of Aradus he says, "The smallness of the rock on which the city lies, seven stades only in circuit, and the number of inhabitants caused every house to have many stories.
Finally, a third fleet landed on a little island 750 stades beyond Mount Calpe, close to the mainland, and not far from the mouth of the Baetis.
The mines in Iberia were carried down many stades in depth and length, with pits, shafts, and sloping paths crossing each other; for the veins of gold and silver were more productive at a greater depth.
And if one, by way of increasing the difficulty, were to say that a city or camp may have a circuit of forty stades and yet be double the size of one having a perimeter of a hundred, the statement would utterly puzzle them.
He passed Rhaphia and encamped about ten stades from the enemy.
Then, once more changing the direction of his march, he advanced to Gythium, the naval arsenal of Sparta, which possesses a safe harbour, and is about thirty stades from the city.
On the fifth day’s march he reached his destination, and pitched his camp a distance of fifty stades from Rhaphia, which is the first city of Coele-Syria towards Egypt.
The Aetolians came en masse without arms; and keeping at a distance of two stades from Philip’s camp, interchanged messages and discussions on the subjects in question.
Having in ten days’ march accomplished a distance of eight hundred stades along the river bank, Hannibal began the ascent of the Alps,[180] and immediately found himself involved in the most serious dangers.
Now it happened that, just as the Macedonian advanced guard came to the top of the hill, near a place called Apelaurus, about ten stades before you come to Stymphalus, the advanced guard of the Eleans converged upon it also.
But presently, when the Consuls ventured to encamp within ten stades of him, Hannibal broke up his quarters before daylight.
Maracanda (Samarcand), the chief city of the Sogdiani, on the Polytimetus, is said to have had a circuit of 70 stades in the fourth century B.
And when they were all assembled, furnished with sickles, Cyrus bade them clear a bushy tract of land about twenty stades in length and breadth, and make it fit for cultivation in a single day.
And there was so great a slaughter of Vandals in the course of the seventy stades that those who beheld it would have supposed that it was the work of an enemy twenty thousand strong.
And accomplishing eighty stades each day, we completed the whole journey to Carthage, passing the night either in a city, should it so happen, or in a camp made as thoroughly secure as the circumstances permitted.
And when, with a favouring wind blowing, they came to within one hundred and fifty stades of Carthage, Archelaus and the soldiers bade them anchor there, fearing the warning of the general, but the sailors would not obey.
And the allied Massagetae he commanded to travel constantly on the left of the army, keeping as many stades away or more; and he himself marched in the rear with the best troops.
For at these places the continents are separated from one another by a distance of only tenstades and even less than that.
And departing from Grasse we came on the fourth day to Decimum, seventy stades distant from Carthage.
And he overtook them at the city of Membresa, three hundred and fiftystades distant from Carthage.
For they say that there is a harbour called Stagnum not more than fortystades distant from that city, which is entirely unguarded and large enough for the whole fleet.
Thus we passed through the city of Leptis and Hadrumetum and reached the place called Grasse, three hundred and fifty stades distant from Carthage.
Belisarius therefore commanded Archelaus, the prefect, and Calonymus, the admiral, not to put in at Carthage, but to remain about two hundred stades away until he himself should summon them.
And when he had come within thirty-five stades of the city, he made camp not far from the sea, and Germanus, after arming his whole army and arraying them for battle, marched forth.
This fortress (placed by Leake at modern Xylokastro) lay at the entrance of the gorge of the Sys, leading from the Aigialos or coast-land into the territory of Pellene, which itself lay about sixty stades from the sea at modern Zougra.
It lay only twenty stades (a little more than two miles) from the city of Sparta.
The pyre which Alexander caused to be erected in Babylon to Hephaestion, after the Semitic pattern, was four stades in circuit and 200 feet in height.
The circuit of this basin is said to have been 420 stades (i.
It is these which Ctesias has described to us as the smaller royal citadel, lying on the eastern bank, and enclosed by a wall of 30 stades in length.
Herodotus, who allows an extent of 420 stades to the lake, deserves the preference.
The island measured tenstades in every direction, and thither, in obedience to his command, the Egyptians by turns secretly brought him nourishment.
When they reached the city of Chalcis, they encamped and remained there, since they learned that the enemy were in a place called Gabboulon, one hundred and ten stades away from Chalcis.
There is a mountain in Armenia which is not especially precipitous, two-and-forty stades removed from Theodosiopolis and lying toward the north from it.
So the Romans went inside the fortifications, while the barbarians pitched their tents and made camp in a body about seven stades from the city.
Now this place is distant from the city of Nisibis one hundred stades lacking two, and from the boundary line which divides the Romans from the Persians about twenty-eight.
And there he gave orders to make a camp at about forty-two stades from the city of Nisibis.
Meanwhile Sittas and the Roman army came to a place called Attachas, one hundred stades distant from Martyropolis, but they did not dare to advance further, but established their camp and remained there.
But the city of Adulis is removed from the harbour a distance of twenty stades (for it lacks only so much of being on the sea), while from the city of Auxomis it is a journey of twelve days.
There they established themselves in camp and remained at rest in a place called Octava, which is fifty-six stades distant from the city.
This river is one very close to Martyropolis, about three hundred stades from Amida.
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