[452] Strabo, p. 73; 509.
[453] Under the Sassanids Media (Mah) consisted of four regions: Aderbeijan, Rai (Rhagiana), Hamadan (Ecbatana), Isfahan.
[454] Herodotus allows the Matieni a considerable extent, for he includes under the name the Armenians and the inhabitants of Atropatene. Later authors confine the Matieni to the region round the lake of Urumiah; in this sense, Polybius, quoted above in the text, limits Media in the North by the Cadusians and Matieni.
[455] Herod. 3, 106; 7, 40.
[456] Strabo, p. 525; Diod. 17, 110; Arrian, "Anab." 7, 13.
[457] Behist. 1, 13. Strabo's Νησαία (p. 509, 511), the Nisiaea of Pliny (6, 29), the Parthaunisa of Isidore of Charax, must be sought in the neighbourhood of Nishapur, which was built by Shapur II. The Avesta puts Niça between Merv and Balkh.
[458] Diod. 19, 44. Alexander in eleven forced marches advanced from Ecbatana to Ragha.
[459] Isid. Ch. "M. P." c. 5.
[460] Mordtmann, "B. d. Bair. Akademie," 1876, s. 364.
[461] Diod. 2, 13; 17, 110. The city of Baptana, which Isidore (c. 5) mentions "as situated on a mountain in Cambadene," is in any case Bagistana (Behistun).