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Posideium lay south of the Orontes, on the slopes of the Syrian Mount Casius, which originally formed the southern boundary of Cilicia; in later times this lay further north, at the Syrian gates. Amphilochus was supposed to have led eastwards some of the Greeks from Troy; he settled them in Pamphylia (vii. 91, a passage which supplements this).

For the independence of the Arabians cf. c. 8; they, however, brought annual gifts (97. 5). For Συρίη Παλαιστίνη cf. 5. 1 n.

The fifth satrapy was called by the Persians ‘beyond the river’ (Ezra v. 6; vi. 6); it, however, included, at any rate later, a district east of the Euphrates (Arr. Anab. iii. 8. 6).

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