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Araxes!—Blessings on Pharaoh!—Blessings on the alliance!

In the north he had advanced as far as Lake Van, and the valley of the Araxes, the Tibarenes in the north-west, and the Cilicians in the west had felt the weight of his arms.

The adjacent Pasin Plain, watered by the Araxes, has suffered severely from the Kurds.

Only the valley of the Araxes allowed agriculture on any extensive scale; it only brought forth abundant produce.

Then Hystaspes went over the Araxes on his way back to Persia, to keep his son under guard for Cyrus.