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said to amount to 4665 miles, though Juba thinks 

 it is a little less than 4000 miles ; it is ^videst at the 

 north, between the towns of Heroeum and Charax. 



The rest of its inland places also must now be 

 stated. Adjoining the Nabataei the old authorities 

 put the Timanei, but now there are the Taveni, 

 Suelleni, Araceni, Arreni (with a town which is a 

 centre for all mercantile business), Hemnatae, 

 Avalitae (with the towns of Domata and Haegra), 

 Tamudaei (town Baclanaza), Cariati, AcitoaH (town 

 Phoda), and the Minaei, who derive their origin, as 

 they believe,from King Minos of Crete ; part of them 

 are the Carmei. Fourteen miles further is the town 

 of Maribba, then Paramalacum, also a considerable 

 place, and Canon, to which the same applies. Then 

 the Rhadamaei (these also are behevcd to descend 

 from Rhadamanthus the brother of Minos), the 

 Homeritae with thc town of Mesala, the Hamiroei, 

 Gedranitae, Phryaei, Lvsanitae, Bachylitae, Samnaei, 

 the Amaitaei with the towns of Messa and Chenne- 

 seris, the Zamareni with the towns of Sagiatta and 

 Canthace, the Bacaschami with the town of 

 Riphearina (a name which is the native word for 

 barley), the Autaei, Ethravi, Cyrei with the 

 town of Elmataei, Chodae with the town of 

 Aiathuris 25 miles up in the mountains (in which 

 is the spring called Aenuscabalcs, which means ' the 

 fountain of thc camels '), the town of Ampelome, a 

 colony from Miletus, the town of Athrida, the Calingi, 

 whose town is named Mariba, meaning ' lords of all 

 men ', the towns of Pallon and Murannimal, on a 

 river through which the Euphrates is beheved to 

 discharge itself, the Agraei and Ammoni tribes, a 

 town named Athenae, the Caunaravi (which means 



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