Book 11
10.2
Margiana is similar to this country, although its plain is surrounded by deserts. Admiring its fertility, Antiochus SoterKing of Syria 280-261 B.C. enclosed a circuit of fifteen hundred stadia with a wall and founded a city Antiocheia. The soil of the country is well suited to the vine; at any rate, they say that a stock of the vine is often found which would require two men to girth it,i.e., about ten to eleven feet in circumference. and that the bunches of grapes are two cubits.i.e., about three feet; apparently in length not in circumference.
