Chapter XII: Book XVI: Cas. 736

SUMMARY

The sixteenth Book contains Assyria, in which are the great
cities Babylon and Nisibis; Adiabene, Mesopotamia, all Syria;
Phœnicia, Palestine; the whole of Arabia; all that part of
India which touches upon Arabia; the territory of the
Saracens, called by our author Scenitis; and the whole country
bordering the Dead and Red Seas.