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Between [the Getæ and] the Black Sea, from the Danube to the Dniester,2677 lies the desert of the Getæ.2678 It is entirely a plain and destitute of water. It was there that Darius the son of Hystaspes, at the time he crossed the Danube, was in danger of being cut off with his whole army for want of water; this he found out before it was too late, and returned. At a subsequent period, when Lysimachus was waging war against the Getæ and their king Dromichætes, he not only incurred the risk,2679 but he fell into the hands of the enemy; but his life was spared by the courtesy of the barbarian, as I have before related.