Note 065 Sallust. Fragment. lxxxiv. edit. Brosses, and Plutarch in Lucullus. Nisibis is now reduced to one hundred and fifty houses; the marshy lands produce rice, and the fertile meadows, as far as Mosul and the Tigris, are covered with the ruins of towns and villages. See Niebuhr, Voyages, tom. ii. p. 300-309.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon