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Dean to see that very old piece of stone carving on the wall above us, it will serve as a link for him in the history of Araxes." "Indeed!" murmured Denzil, somewhat abstractedly. The Princess glanced at his brooding face and laughed. "You, I know, are not interested at all in old history," she went on. "The past has no attraction for you." "No.
There were days when she was resigned to her lot and merely hoped that it would soon be over; and she wondered how it was that she did not slip out of the gardens at evening, and go and sink her care and her great sorrow in the cool waves of the Araxes, far down below.
So he turned northward. When the king in his flight had crossed the Phasis, the ancient boundary of Asia Minor, Pompeius for the time discontinued his pursuit; but instead of returning to the region of the sources of the Euphrates, he turned aside into the region of the Araxes to settle matters with Tigranes. Pompeius at Artaxata Peace with Tigranes
The Albani at first allowed a free passage to Pompeius at his request; but as winter overtook the Romans in the country and they were occupied with the festival of the Saturnalia, mustering to the number of forty thousand they attacked the Romans, after crossing the Cyrnus river, which rising in the Iberian mountains and receiving the Araxes which comes down from Armenia, empties itself by twelve mouths into the Caspian.
One morning O'Brien came on board and said, "Peter, I've a piece of news for you. Our gunner is appointed to the Araxes, and the admiral has given me a gunner's warrant for old Swinburne. Send for him on deck." Swinburne was summoned, and came rolling up the hatchway. "Swinburne," said O'Brien, "you have done your duty well, and you are now gunner of the Rattlesnake.
I also want to find the remains of Ziska-Charmazel, the lady impersonated by our charming friend the Princess last night, the dancer, who, it appears from a recently-discovered fresco, occupied most of her time in dancing before this same Araxes and making herself generally agreeable to him." "What an odd fancy!" exclaimed Denzil.
The Cyrus, now the Cur, flows from the higher regions of the Caucasus through Iberia and Albania, and is joined by the Araxes, Aras, above the point where the united stream enters the Caspian on the west coast. It is true that Alexander soon quitted Hyrkania, which lies on the south-east coast of the Caspian; but when he was in Hyrkania he was still a considerable distance from the Iberians.
XXXIII. Pompeius invaded Armenia at the invitation of young Tigranes, who had now revolted from his father, and he met Pompeius near the river Araxes, which rises in the same parts with the Euphrates, but turns to the east and enters the Caspian Sea.
For the hieroglyphs on the jewelled sarcophagus speak of him thus and say: "Araxes was a Man of Might, far exceeding in Strength and Beauty the common sons of men. Great in War, Invincible in Love, he did Excel in Deeds of Courage and of Conquest, and for whatsoever Sins he did in the secret Weakness of humanity commit, the Gods must judge him.
You will embrace this regime although you love wine passionately, and although it may even be often necessary for you to go on the banks of the Phasis and Araxes. Lastly, if you want to go to Heaven, and be well placed there, you will take the road to Mecca."
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