Hyrcānia

, a large country of Asia, at the north of Parthia, and at the west of Media, abounding in serpents, wild beasts, . It is very mountainous, and unfit for drawing a cavalry in order of battle. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 4 , li. 367 .— Cicero , Tusculanæ Dis put at i ones , bk. 1 , ch. 45 .— Strabo , bks. 2 & 11.――A town of Lydia, destroyed by a violent earthquake in the age of Tiberius. Livy , bk. 37 , ch. 38 .