65. 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.