place
Babylon
Great city of Mesopotamia which Cyrus was marching to besiege when he turned aside to punish the Gyndes.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §6.8 Babylonian walls
The famed fortifications of Babylon, which Alexander the Great nonetheless entered; one of three impregnable-seeming walls Seneca says the wise man's defenses surpass.
- On Anger §3.21 Babylon
The great Mesopotamian city Cyrus was marching to besiege.