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After Arbela and the mountain Nicatorium488 (a name which Alexander, after the victory at Arbela, superadded), is the river Caprus,489 situated at the same distance from Arbela as the Lycus. The country is called Artacene.490 Near Arbela is the city Demetrias; next is the spring of naphtha, the fires, the temple of the goddess Anæa,491 Sadracæ, the palace of Darius, son of Hystaspes, the Cyparisson, or plantation of Cypresses, and the passage across the Caprus, which is close to Seleucia and Babylon.