and at a great distance above Babylon, she dug a basin for a lake, which she caused to extend along at a very small distance from the river, excavating it everywhere of such depth as to come to water, and making the extent such that the circuit of it measured four hundred and twenty furlongs:
Horrelakoxea zen, bada, egin zuen obra hori; eta, ibaiaren alde bakoitzean, duen lodiera eta altuera osoagatik harrigarria den dikea eraiki zuen.