The House
The eastern border, stretching out in a long, straight line from the banks of the Euphrates River to the very headwaters of the Nile, borders the Saracen peoples on the left and opens onto the roar of the sea on the right; Seleucus Nicator greatly expanded this territory, when, following the death of Alexander the Macedonian, he held the Persian kingdoms by right of succession—a king of unmatched effectiveness, as his epithet indicates.