Araxes

How to use Araxes in a sentence

• Agriculture was neglected, and they subsisted entirely upon their cattle and the fish supplied by the Araxes.

  Female Warriors, Vol. I (of 2) | Ellen C. Clayton

• On the sixth day after the last battle they reached the river Araxes,421 which is the boundary between Media and Armenia.

  Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey Stewart

• The southern boundary of Caucasia is in part coincident with the river Aras (Araxes), in part purely conventional and political.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 | Various

• From this place he continued his march through Syria nine stages—fifty parasangs—and they reached the river Araxes.

  Anabasis | Xenophon

• As soon as we recrossed the Araxes, the escort begged me to point out the Keblah to them, as they wanted to pray.

  Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar | George Smith