Book 11
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Next to the Anti-Taurus on the other side of the Euphrates, along the Lesser Armenia, there stretches towards the north a large mountain with many branches, one of which is called Paryadres,The range overhanging Cerasus, now Kerasun. another the Moschic mountains, and others by other names. The Moschic mountains comprehend the whole of Armenians as far as the Iberians and Albanians. Other mountains again rise towards the east above the Caspian Sea, and extend as far as Media the Greater, and the Atropatian-Media. They call all these parts of the mountains Parachoathras, as well as those which extend to the Caspian Gates, and those still farther above towards the east, which are contiguous to Asia. The following are the names of the mountains towards the north.
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The southern mountains on the other side of the Euphrates, extending towards the east from Cappadocia and Commagene,Camasch. The country situated N. W. of the Euphrates in about 38° lat. at their commencement have the name of Taurus, which separates Sophene and the rest of Armenia from Mesopotamia, but some writers call them the Gordyaean mountains.The range of Kurdistan on the E. of the Tigris. Among these is Mount Masius,The range lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris, between 37° and 38° lat. which is situated above Nisibis,Nisibin or Netzid. and Tigranocerta.Meja-Farkin, by above these cities, would appear to mean overhanging them both, as it is situated between them. It then becomes more elevated, and is called Niphates.Nepat-Learn. Somewhere in this part on the southern side of the mountainous chain are the sources of the Tigris. Then the ridge of mountains continuing to extend from the Niphates forms the mountain Zagrius, which separates Media and Babylonia. After the Zagrius follows above Babylonia the mountainous range of the Elymaei and Paraetaceni, and above Media that of the Cossaei.
