Chap. 17.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTEIES, ETC. 43S 



chies^ lie between and around these cities, equal, each of 

 them, to a kingdom, and occupying the same rank as so 

 many kingdoms. Their names are, Trachonitis'-, Panias^j 

 in wuich is Caesarea, with the spriug previously mentioned*, 

 Abila", Arca^, Ampeloessa^, and Gabe,*^. 



CHAP. 17. (19.) PH(ENICE. 



"We must now return to the coast and to Phoenice. There 

 was formerly a town here known as Crocodilon ; there is still 

 a river ^ of that name : Dorum '" and Sycaminon^' are the names 



* So called from having been originally groups of four principalities, held 

 by princes who were vassals to the Roman emperors, or the kings of Syria. 



2 Containing the northern district of Palestine, beyond the Jordan, 

 between Antilibanus and the mountains of Arabia. It was bounded on 

 the north by the territory of Damascus, on the east by Auranitis, on the 

 south by Ituraea, and on the west by Gaulanitis. It was so called from 

 its ranges of rocky mountains, or rpax^j^es, the caves in which gave 

 refuge to numerous bands of robbers. 



2 So called from the momitain of that name. Csesarea PhiUppi also 

 bore the name of Panias. It was situate at the south of Momit Hermon, 

 on the Jordan, just below its source. It was built by Phihp the Tetrarch, 

 B.C. 3. King Agrippa called it Neronias ; but it soon lost that name. 



^ In C. xiv. of the present Book, as that in wliich the Jordan takes 

 its rise. * A place of great strength in Coele-Syria, now 



known as Nebi Abel, situate between Heliopolis and Damascus. 



^ Situate between Tripolis and Antaradus, at the north-west foot of 

 Mount Libanus. It lay within a short distance of the sea, and was 

 famous for the worship paid by its inhabitants to Astai'te, the Syrian 

 Aphrodite. A temple was erected here to Alexander the Great, in 

 wliich Alexander Severus, the Roman Emperor, was born. Ids parents 

 having resorted thither to celebrate a festival, a.d. 205. From this eir- 

 camstance, its name was changed to Cajsarea. Burckhardt fixes its site 

 at a liill called Tel-Arka. 



^ Of this place, which probably took its name from its numerous 

 vines, notliing wliatever is known. 



^ Called by Phny, in B. xii. c. 41, Gabba. It was situate at the foot 

 of Mount Carmel between CsEsarea and Ptolemais, sixteen miles li-om 

 the former. No remains of it are to be seen. It must not bo eon- 

 founrled with Gabala, in Galilee, fortified by Herod tlie Great. 



" Tlie towTi was situate between Csesarea and Ptolemais. The river 

 has been identified with the modem Nalu-el-Zerka, in which, according 

 to Pococke, crocodiles have been found. 



^•^ Called Dor, before the conquest of Canaan by the IsracUt<^s. See 

 Jophua xvii. 11, and Judges i. 27. It afterwards belonged to the half- 

 tribe of Manasseh. Its site is now called TDrtura. 



'^ Its site is now called Atlik, according to D'Anville. Parisot suggestB 

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