4 Of Simyra^ Orthofia, Areas, 



The mean- buted to it. 111 the Jerufalem Itinerary, degrade or leflen at 



ingot Maijfa, ' . , . ^ 



and Mutatio. ^\\ x^q ancictit Rank and Dignity of it. For the fame Appella- 

 tion is given to ^ntaradus, a City of indifputable Reputation ; 

 and might fignify no more, than that they were both, at that 

 Time, (without having any Regard at all to their former or 

 even prefent Condition) either Places of Arms, or elfe the Store- 

 houfes and Magazines of the Romans. The Mut at tones ', in 

 like manner, which are more frequently mentioned in this 

 Itinerary, might anfwer to the To ft -Stages of our Times ; as 

 one of them, the Mutatio Bruttm % feems, by the Diftances, to 

 have been built upon the Ruins, or upon the very Site of the 

 ancient Orthofia, where, if I miftake not, there is at prefent 

 a Kane or Caravanferai\ a Place or Station of much the fame 

 Nature and Confequence. The Oppoiition therefore which 

 is given by this Gentleman, in thefe Points of Geography, is 

 fo much the more unreafonable and difingenuous, as he does 

 not feem, either to have feen, or to have been the leaft ac- 

 quainted, with the real Situation of any one of the above-men- 

 tioned Places. Whereas I had adually furveyed and examined 

 them all ; as very well knowing, the great Light and Afliftance, 

 which their refpeftive Situations would afford us, in clearing 

 up the ancient Geography of thefe Parts. 

 d?''bmv"ix't F<^^ the Boundary betwixt Syria and Thcenice is, one way 

 Syria and qj- anothcr, very nearly related to each of thefe Cities ; for 



Fbanice near y j j ■} 



Area. tj^g j-fue Situation of which, I am now contending. Even 

 Areas, though it is reckoned by Ttolemy and the Itinerary, 

 among the inland Cities of Thcenice, yet, by being the very 

 firft of them in Order, it could not be at any great Diftance 

 from the Boundary ; provided indeed, it was actually, and not 

 nominally only, a City of the latter. This ancient City then, 

 which was once the Seat oithQArkite, as Sumrah was of the 



I Loca animalium curfus public!, Mutationes dicebantur, ubi.cqui mutabantur. Panc'irol. 

 Comment, in Not. Imp. Or. i. 6. Manfionum ulus tarn curfui publico quam militi Roma- 

 norum Legionum patebant. Id. 5- f. Manfiones a mancndo didx% quod ibi [per nodem] 

 manerent. Id. 5* 7« vid. Brijfonitim & Du Frefne in vocibus. In manfiombus & mutationibus 

 Imperatores fieri curaverant adificia curfui publico accommodando, ubi tarn equi curfuales 

 quam homines & Catabulenfes ad curfus publici tutelam & facilitatem eiunt difpofiti, 

 Bergier. de Public. & Milit. Viis. Sed. IX. J. 2. 



2 Manfio ANTARADVS Manfio AR.CAS. M. VIII. 



Eft civitas in mare a Ripa M. II. Mutatio BRVTTVS. M. IV. 



Mutatio SPICLIN. M. XII. Civitas TR I POL IS. M.XII. 



Hunc & fequentem qui illuftrat aim erit. Vid. Itiner. a Biirdegala Hicrofo- 



Mutatio BASILISCVM. M. XII. Ipnam ufqiw. 



'■ Xemarite, 



