George Leo Haydock, on Jdt 16:5

“The Assyrians came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.”

“Mountains of Cilicia, and through the defiles of Libanus and Hermon, on the north of Palestine, by which road they were forced to come. The desert Arabia was impassable for a large army. (Calmet) — North, inclining to the east. (Haydock) (Isaias xiv. 13., Jeremias i. 13., and Ezechiel i. 4.) — Torrents, drinking them up, as Sennacherib boasted; (4 Kings xix. 24.) and the Greeks assert the same of the army of Xerxes. (Herodotus vii. 108.) —–Epotaque flumina Medo Prandente.—– (Juvenal x.) The Greek seems to insinuate that the Assyrians “stopped up the springs,” to distress the country, as Philopator did. (Calmet) — Valleys. Greek, “hills.””

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.