ECBATANA, or rather Gabbatha, a city situated at the foot of Mount Carmel, Plin. l. v. c. 19.on the side of Ptolemais. There Cambyses died of the wound, which he received in his thigh with his own Scimiter, as he was Herodot. l. 3. c. 64.mounting his horse. See our Dissertation upon Gog and Magog, prefix’d to our Comment on Ezekiel.
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