He also assigns the following distances from the Caspian Gates to India. Stadia. To Hecatompylos[1001] 1960 To Alexandreia[1002] in the country of the Arii (Ariana) 4530 Thence to Prophthasia[1003] in Dranga[1004] (or according to others 1500) 1600 Thence to the city Arachoti[1005] 4120 Thence to Ortospana on the three roads from Bactra[1006] 2000 Thence to the confines of India 1000 ------ Which together amount to 15,300[1007] ------ We [CAS. 514] must regard as continuous with this distance, in a straight line, the length of India, reckoned from the Indus to the Eastern Sea. Thus much then respecting the Sacæ. CHAPTER IX. 1. Parthia is not an extensive tract of country; for this reason it was united with the Hyrcani for the purpose of paying tribute under the Persian dominion and afterwards, during a long period when the Macedonians were masters of the country. Besides its small extent, it is thickly wooded, mountainous, and produces nothing; so that the kings with their multitude of followers pass with great speed through the country, which is unable to furnish subsistence for such numbers even for a short time. At present it is augmented in extent. Comisene[1008] and Chorene are parts of Parthiene, and perhaps also the country as far as the Caspian Gates, Rhagæ, and the Tapyri, which formerly belonged to Media. Apameia and Heracleia are cities in the neighbourhood of Rhagæ. From the Caspian Gates to Rhagæ are 500 stadia according to Apollodorus, and to Hecatompylos, the royal seat of the Parthians, 1260 stadia. Rhagæ[1009] is said to have had its name from the earthquakes which occurred in that country, by which many cities and two thousand villages, as Poseidonius relates, were overthrown. The Tapyri are said to live between the Derbices and the Hyrcani. Historians say, that it is a custom among the Tapyri to surrender the married women to other men, even when the husbands have had two or three children by them, as Cato surrendered Marcia in our times, according to an ancient custom of the Romans, to Hortensius, at his request.