. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . d the Halys werestill possessed of considerable riches, in spite of the lossesthey had suffered from the avaricious Cimmerians, andtheir chief towns, Comana, Pteria and Teiria, continuedto enjoy prosperity under the rule of their particularly had developed in the course of thecentury, thanks to her favourable situation, which had ^ Grote has collected a certain number of examples in later times toshow that the journeying of a nomad horde from one state to another mayprovoke wars, and he concludes therefrom that at
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . d the Halys werestill possessed of considerable riches, in spite of the lossesthey had suffered from the avaricious Cimmerians, andtheir chief towns, Comana, Pteria and Teiria, continuedto enjoy prosperity under the rule of their particularly had developed in the course of thecentury, thanks to her favourable situation, which had ^ Grote has collected a certain number of examples in later times toshow that the journeying of a nomad horde from one state to another mayprovoke wars, and he concludes therefrom that at least the basis of Herodotusaccount may be considered as true. 396 THE MEDES AND THE SECOND CHALDEAN EMPIRE enabled her to offer a secure refuge to the neighbouringpopulation during the late disasters. The town itself wascrowded into a confined plain, on the left bank of a torrentwhich flowed into the Halys, and the city walls may stillbe clearly traced upon the soil; the outline of the houses,the silos, cisterns, and rook-cut staircases are still visible.
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