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CTESIPHON

Volume 7 · 94 words · 1815 Edition

a celebrated Greek architect, who gave the designs of the famous temple of Ephesus, and invented a machine for bringing thither the columns to be used in that noble structure. He flourished 544 B.C.1

Ancient Geography, a large village, or rather a fine city, of Chalantis, the most southern province of Assyria. It was situated on the left or east side of the Tigris, opposite to Seleucia on this side; and built by the Parthians, to rival Seleucia. Here the kings of Parthia passed the winter (Strabo); as they did the summer at Ecbatana.