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Theophanes represents this as the size of the country; its breadth to be 100 schœni, and its length double this number, reckoning the schœnus at 40 stadia; but this computation exceeds the truth. It is nearer the truth to take the [Pg 272]

[CAS. 530] length as he has given it, and the breadth at one half, or a little more.

Such then is the nature of the country of Armenia, and its power.