Zeugma

, a town of Me so pot am i a, on the western bank of the Euphrates, where was a well-known pa age acro the river. It was the eastern boundary of the Roman empire, and in Pliny’s age a chain of iron was said to extend acro it. Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 24 .— Strabo , bk. 16 .— Curtius , bk. 3 , ch. 7 .— Tacitus , Annals , bk. 12 , ch. 12 .――A town of Dacia.