book 12, chapter 7.

ALSO IN: _C. Thirlwall, History of Greece, chapter 58._

See, also, MACEDONIA: B. C. 323-316.

ARGYRE.

See CHRYSE.

ARIA.--AREIOS.--AREIANS.

The name by which the Herirud and its valley, the district of modern Herat, was known to the ancient Greeks. Its inhabitants were known as the Areians.

_M. Duncker, History of Antiquity, book 7, chapter 1._

ARIANA.

"Strabo uses the name Ariana for the land of all the nations of Iran, except that of the Medes and Persians, i. e., for the whole eastern half of Iran."--Afghanistan and Beloochistan.

_M. Duncker, History of Antiquity,