Histories

(the artaba is a Persian measure, containing more than an Attic medimnus by three Attic choenixes),[*](The Attic medimnus = about 12 gallons; it contained 48xoi/nikes. ) and besides warhorses he had eight hundred stallions in his stables, and sixteen thousand brood mares, each stallion servicing twenty mares.

Moreover he kept so great a number of Indian dogs that four great villages of the plain were appointed to provide food for the dogs and exempted from all other burdens. Such were the riches of the governor of Babylon [44.4,32.55] (deserted settlement), Babil, Iraq, AsiaBabylon.