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[3] Upon this, the Armenian rode away.

Now, as Crassus was taking his army across the Euphrates at Zeugma,1 many extraordinary peals of thunder crashed about them, and many flashes of lightning also darted in their faces, and a wind, half mist and half hurricane, fell upon their raft, breaking it up and shattering it in many places.

1 A town in Syria, on the right bank of the Euphrates, deriving its name from a bridge of boats there made across the river.

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