. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . ^ f^ O O 03 i-J -3 ■*= 3 -^. A HUGE SPACE LEFT BLANK 189 classicist at the same moment will remember a passage in Dio-dorus Siculus, which tells how Semiramis visited Bagistanon,encamped near by, built a paradise on the spot, and com-memorated the occasion by an inscription on the quotation from this Greek author, who lived in the firstcentury before the Christian era, is worth repeating for thesake of comparison: — When Semiramis had brought to an end the works upon whic
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . ^ f^ O O 03 i-J -3 ■*= 3 -^. A HUGE SPACE LEFT BLANK 189 classicist at the same moment will remember a passage in Dio-dorus Siculus, which tells how Semiramis visited Bagistanon,encamped near by, built a paradise on the spot, and com-memorated the occasion by an inscription on the quotation from this Greek author, who lived in the firstcentury before the Christian era, is worth repeating for thesake of comparison: — When Semiramis had brought to an end the works upon whichshe was engaged, she set out for Media with a large military forceand, halting near the mountain called Bagistan, pitched her campthere. She made a park, twelve furlongs in circumference, in theplain, which has a great fountain that waters all the cultivated arearound about. The mountain of Bagistan is sacred to Zeus, and onthe side toward the garden it has steep rocks extending upward tothe height of seventeen furlongs. On the lower part of this shecaused her own image to be carved, with a hundred lance-bearersstanding round abou
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