Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian/Frag. XLVIII. B
Fragm. XLVIII.B.
Joseph. Ant Jud. X. ii. 1 (T. I. p. 538, Havere).
[In this place (Nabouchodonosor) erected also of stone elevated places for walking about on, which had to the eye the appearance of mountains, and were so contrived that they were planted with all sorts of trees, because his wife, who had been bred up in the land of Media, wished her surroundings to be like those of her early home.] Megasthenês also, in the 4th book of his Indika, makes mention of these things, and thereby endeavours to show that this king surpassed Hêrakles in courage and the greatness of his achievements, for he says that he conquered Libya and a great part of Ibêria.