[398] Polybius, XXII. 7.
[399] Seleucus founded sixteen towns of the name of Antiochia, five of the name of Laodicea, nine of the name of Seleucia, three of the name of Apamea, one of the name of Stratonicea, and a great number of others which equally received Greek names. (Appian, Wars of Syria, lvii. 622.)—Pliny (Natural History, VI. xxvi. 117) informs us that it was the Seleucides who collected into towns the inhabitants of Babylonia, who before only inhabited villages (vici), and had no other cities than Nineveh and Babylon.
[400] Pliny (Natural History, VI. 26, 119) mentions one of these towns which was 70 stadia in circuit, and in his time was reduced to a mere fortress.
[401] Strabo, XVI. ii. § 5.—Pausanias, VI. ii. § 7.
[402] John Malalas, Chronicle, VIII. 200 and 202, ed. Dindorf.
[403] Strabo, XVI. ii. § 4.
[404] Strabo, XVI. ii. § 6.
[405] Strabo, XVI. ii. § 10.
[406] It was raised on a terrace a thousand feet long by three hundred feet broad, and was built with stones 70 feet long.
[407] The empire of Seleucus comprised seventy-two satrapies. (Appian, Wars of Syria, lxii. 630.)