Book 11
14.10
As for the wealth and power of the country, the following is no small sign of it, that when Pompey imposed upon Tigranes, the father of Artavasdes, a payment of six thousand talents of silver, he forthwith distributed to the Roman forces as follows: to each soldier fifty drachmas, to each centurion a thousand drachmas, and to each hipparch and chiliarch a talent.
14.11
The size of the country is given by Theophanes:See footnote on 11. 2. 2. the breadth one hundred “schoeni,” and the length twice as much, putting the “schoenus at forty stadia;On the variations in the meaning of “schoenus,” see 17. 1. 24. but his estimate is too high; it is nearer the truth to put down as length what he gives as breadth, and as breadth the half, or a little more, of what he gives as breadth. Such, then, is the nature and power of Armenia.
