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There are several instances Herodotus mentions the river Araxes in his works as a river flowing from the west into the Caspian.
My long-shot conjevture is that "Araxes" is derived from "araxis", meaning "to dash, to beat". Maybe the river in question was very violent flow.
Liddell and Scott, in their *Greek-English Lexicon* also define *araxa* as "a fabulous plant which grows by the Araxes".

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