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... in unum conducta apud Melitenen, qua tramittere Euphraten parabat....

Melitene was a town in Cappadocia near the Euphrates, important as a station commanding the passage of that river, and made in consequence the headquarters of the 12th legion, in 70 A. D. ; now ' Malatia. Furneaux.