Igitur Mesopotamiae praetoribus imperavit materia in Libano monte caesa devectaque ad urbem Syriae Thapsacum, septingentarum carinas navium ponere; septemremis omnes esse deducique Babylona.
With this in view he ordered the governors of Mesopotamia to cut timber on Mt. Libanus, transport it to Thapsacus, a city of Syria, and lay the keels of 700 ships; all were to be septiremes, and to be taken to Babylon.
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