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is the river Orontes, which rises between Lebanon 

 and Counter-Lebanon, near Baalbec. The towns 

 are Rhosos, — and behind it the pass called the Gates 

 of S}Tia, in between the Rhosos Mountains and 

 Mount Taurus, — and on the coast the town of 

 Myriandros. and Mount Alnia-Daoh, on which is the 

 town of Bomitae. This mountain separates CiUcia 

 from Syria. 



XIX. Now let us speak of the places inhind. iniand 

 Hollow S^-ria contains the town of Kuhit el Mudik, '^^'^"'' 

 separated by the river Marsyas from the tetrarchy 

 of the Nosairis ; Bambyx, which is also named the 

 Holy Citv, but wliich the Svrians call Mabog — here 

 the monstrous goddess Atargatis," the Greek name 

 for wliom is Derceto, is worshipped ; the place called 

 Chalcis on Behxs,* which gives its name to the i-egion 

 of Chalcidene, a most fertile part of Syria ; and 

 then, belonging to Cyrrestica, Cyrras and the 

 Gazetae, Gindareni and Gabeni ; the two tetrarchies 

 called Granucomatitae; the Hemeseni, the Hylatae, 

 the Ituraei tribe and a branch of them called the 

 Baethaemi ; the Mariamnitani ; the tetrarchy called 

 Mammisea ; Paradise, Pagrae, Penelenitae ; two 

 places called Seleucia in addition to the place of that 

 name already mentioned, Seleucia on the Euphrates S^'-*- 

 and Seleucia on Belus ; and the Tardytenses. 

 The remainder of Syria (excepting the parts that 

 will be spoken of with the Euphrates) contains the 

 Arbethusii, the Beroeenses, the Epiplianenses on 

 the Orontes, the Laodiceans on Lebanon, the 

 Leucadii and the Larisaei, besides seventeen 

 tetrarchies divided into Idngdoms and bearing bar- 

 barian names. 



* Porhaps tbe mountain Djebel el Sommaq. 



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