# Naturalis Historia 5.86

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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86] Arabia supra dicta habet oppida Edessam, quae quondam Antiochia dicebatur, Callirhoem, a fonte nominatam, Carrhas, Crassi clade nobile. iungitur praefectura Mesopotamiae, ab Assyriis originem trahens, in qua Anthemusia et Nicephorium oppida. mox Arabes qui Praetavi vocantur; horum caput Singara. a Samosatis autem latere Syriae Marsyas amnis influit. Cingilla Commagenen finit, Imeneorum citias incipit. oppida adluuntur Epiphania et Antiochia, quae Ad Euphraten vocantur, item Zeugma LXXII p. a Samosatis, transitu Euphratis nobile. ex adverso Apameam Seleucus, idem utriusque conditor, ponte iunxerat.

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