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conquest of the whole earth ; Gades, too, which she founded 

 beyond the limits of the world. At the present day, all her 

 fame is confined to the production of the murex and the 

 purpled Its circumference, including therein Palaetyrus^ is 

 nineteen miles, the place itself extending twenty-two stadia. 

 The next towns are Sarepta' and Ornithon^, and then 

 Sidon'*, famous for its manufacture of glass, and the parent 

 of Thebes'' in Boeotia. 



(20.) In the rear of this spot begins the chain of Libanus, 

 which extends 1500 stadia, as far as Simyra ; this district 

 has the name of Coele Syria. Opposite to this chain, and 

 separated from it by an intervening valley, stretches away 

 the range of Antilibanus, which was formerly connected 

 with Libanus^ by a wall. Beyond it, and lynig in the in- 

 terior, is the region of Decapolis, and, with it, the Tetrarchies 

 already mentioned, and the whole expanse of Palaestina. On 

 the coast, again, and lying beneath Libanus, is the river 

 Magoras*^, the colony ot Berytus', which bears the name of 

 Felix Julia, the town of Leontos'", the river Lycos", Palae- 

 byblos'", the river Adonis", and the towns of By bios", 



* From which was made the famous Tyrian purple. 



' Or " ancient Tyre," which was built on the mainland. 



* The Zarephath of 1 Kings ivii. 9, 10, whither Elijah was sent to 

 the widow, whose son he afterwards raised from the dead. Its site is 

 now known as Sarfand. 



* Probably meaning " City of the Birds," perhaps from the quantitieg 

 of game in its vicinity. Its site now bears the name of Adlan. 



* Its site is now called Saida. In the time of David and Solomon, it 

 was probably subject to the kings of Tyre. ^ 



" Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, was said to have been the son of its 

 king Agcnor. 7 The Lebanon of Scripture. This inter- 



vening space, the ancient Coele-Syria, is now inhabited by the Druses. 



* Perhaps the modem Nahr-el-Damur. 



* Now Beyrout. By some it has been identified with the Berotha, or 

 Berothai, of the Hebrew Scriptures. Its fuU name as a Koman colony 

 was, " Colonia Julia Augusta Felix Berytus." It was colonized by the 

 veterans of the Fifth, or Macedonian, and the Eightli, or Augustan, 

 Legions. Beyrout, or Berut, is now, in a commercial point of view, the 

 most important place in Syria. 



1° Nothing is known of this place. The name seems to mean, the 

 «Town of the Lion." " Now the Nahr-el-Kelb, or " Dog s River." 



^2 The site of this place seems not to be known. 

 ^3 Now the Nahr-el- Ibrahim. 

 ** The modem town which stands on its site is called JebeiL It ii 



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