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RESEN

Volume 17 · 86 words · 1823 Edition

(Moses); a town on the Tigris, built by Nimrod; thought to be the Larissa of Xenophon; which see. But as Larissa is a name in imitation of a Greek city; and as there were no Greek cities, con- sequently no Larissa, in Assyria, before Alexander the Great; it is probable that the Greeks asking of what city those were the ruins they saw, the Assyrians might answer, Larissa, "Of Rezen," which word Xenon- phon expressed by Larissa, a more familiar sound to a Greek ear, (Wells).