Book 16
1.17
Persis, which is a large country, encompasses Carmania on the [west]Groskurd here supposes an omission by the copyist of the words ἑσπέοͅαν καί ποͅὸς before ἄοͅκτον. and north. Close to it adjoin Paraetacene,Paraetacene, Cossaea, and Elymaïs occupied the mountainous parts of Irak Adjami. and the Cossaean territory as far as the Caspian Gates, inhabited by mountainous and predatory tribes. Contiguous to Susiana is Elymaïs, a great part of which is rugged, and inhabited by robbers. To Elymaïs adjoin the country about the ZagrusAïaghi-dagh. and Media.Media extended partly into Irak Adjami, and partly into Kurdistan.
1.18
The Cossaei, like the neighbouring mountaineers, are for the most part archers, and are always out on foraging parties. For as they occupy a country of small extent, and barren, they are compelled by necessity to live at the expense of others. They are also necessarily powerful, for they are all fighting men. When the Elymaei were at war with the Babylonians and Susians, they supplied the Elymaei with thirteen thousand auxiliaries.
1.18
The Paraetaceni attend to the cultivation of the ground more than the Cossaei, but even these people do not abstain from robbery.
