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a) 118b "The surrounding mountains were celebrated for their number and size and beauty, far beyond any which still exist..."
b) 118b "in them also many wealthy villages of country folk... and lakes...supplying food enough for every animal, wild or tame."
c) 118c "in them also many wealthy villages of country folk, and rivers, and lakes, and meadows supplying food enough for every animal, wild or tame"
d) 118b/c/d "I will now describe the plain, as it was fashioned by nature and by the labours of many generations of kings through long ages...It was naturally for the most part rectangular and oblong, and where falling out of the straight line had been made regular by the surrounding ditch. The depth, and width, and length of this ditch were incredible, and gave the impression that a work of such extent, in addition to so many others, could never have been artificial...It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stade everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stades in length."
e) 118d "It received the streams which came down from the mountains, and winding round the plain and meeting at the city, was there let off into the sea. Farther inland..."
f) 118d & 118e "... likewise, straight canals of a hundred feet in width were cut from it through the plain, and again let off into the ditch leading to the sea: these canals were at intervals of a hundred stades, and by them they brought down the wood from the mountains to the city, and conveyed the fruits of the earth in ships, cutting transverse passages from one canal into another, and to the city."
g) 118e & 119a/b "As to the population, each of the lots in the plain had to produce a leader for the men who were fit for military service, and the size of a lot was a square of ten stades each way, and the total number of all the lots was sixty thousand. And of the inhabitants of the mountains and of the rest of the country there was also a vast multitude, which was distributed among the lots and had leaders assigned to them according to their districts and villages...The leader was required to furnish for the war the sixth portion of a war-chariot, so as to make up a total of ten thousand chariots; also two horses and riders for them, and a pair of chariot-horses without a car, accompanied by a horseman who could fight on foot carrying a small shield, and having a charioteer who stood behind the man-at-arms to guide the two horses; also, he was bound to furnish two heavy-armed soldiers, two archers, two slingers, three stone-shooters and three javelin-men, who were light-armed, and four sailors to make up the complement of twelve hundred ships"