Euphrātes

, a disciple of Plato, who governed Macedonia with absolute authority in the reign of Perdiccas, and rendered himself odious by his cruelty and pedantry. After the death of Perdiccas, he was murdered by Parmenio.――A stoic philosopher in the age of Adrian, who destroyed himself with the emperor’s leave, to escape the miseries of old age, A.D. 118. Dio Ca ius. ――A large and celebrated river of Me so pot am i a, rising from mount Taurus in Armenia, and discharging itself with the Tigris into the Persian gulf. It is very rapid in its course, and pa es through the middle of the city of Babylon. It inundates the country of Me so pot am i a at a certain season of the year, and, like the Nile in Egypt, happily fertilizes the adjacent fields. Cyrus dried up its ancient channel, and changed the course of the waters when he besieged Babylon. Strabo , bk. 11 .— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 2 ; bk. 3 , ch. 8 .— Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 24 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 509 ; bk. 4 , li. 560 .