Euphrates
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Anabasis
River beside the narrow passage and the Greek right wing, later used as a defensive boundary.
they thought it best, therefore, to draw the wing back and get the river in their rear.
] and alongside the Euphrates there was a narrow passage, not more than about twenty feet in width, between the river and the trench;
Thereupon they proceeded in great haste to take their places, Clearchus occupying the right end of the Greek wing, close to the Euphrates river, Proxenus next to him, and the others beyond Proxenus, while Menon and his army took the left end of the Greek wing.
The Rights of War and Peace
River whose crossing by Crassus, undertaken without cause, is cited as an example of unjust war.
And in another place, he reproves Crassus for having intended to pass the Euphrates, when there was no cause of war.
” When Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia had wantonly obstructed the channel of the river Melas, which discharges itself into the Euphrates, the swell of waters bursting the mounds, the Euphrates rose to such a height, as to occasion excessive damage to the Cappadocians, the Galatians, and the Phrygians.
On Moral Ends
River associated with Crassus's campaign, cited as evidence of his insatiable want
more rightly rich than Crassus, who, had he not been in want, would never have wished to cross the Euphrates with no cause of war.
On the Nature of the Gods
The river that fertilizes Mesopotamia.
The Euphrates makes Mesopotamia fertile, into which it carries every year, as it were, new fields.
Stromata
The river Euphrates, site of the battle in which Josiah was killed by Nechao.
This Josiah, having disregarded Jeremiah the prophet, was slain by Nechao, king of Egypt, at the river Euphrates, having gone to meet him as he set out against the Assyrians.
The Histories
Major river flowing through the middle of Babylon, diverted first by Nitocris and later by Cyrus for military purposes.
and when he came to the lake, Cyrus dealt with it and with the river just as had the Babylonian queen:
but by digging canals higher up she made the river so crooked that its course now passes one of the Assyrian villages three times;
for it is cut in half by a river named Euphrates, a wide, deep, and swift river, flowing from Armenia and issuing into the Red Sea.