[501] Herod. i. 193.
[502] Herod. i. 194.
[503] Al-Madain.
[504] Strabo probably here refers to Hecatompylos, which, in b. xi. c. ix. § 1, he calls “the royal seat of the Parthians,” and which shared with Ecbatana the honour of being a residence of the Parthian kings. The name Hyrcania has here a wide meaning; the proper name would have been Parthia.
[505] Cicero de Nat. Deor. i. § 5.
[506] Descura. D’Anville.
[507] Sus.
[508] Asciac part of Khosistan.
[509] Kerman.
[510] Groskurd here supposes an omission by the copyist of the words ἑσπέραν καὶ πρὸς before ἄρκτον.