98 George Dahl, 



JlepLrjyrjaii^ fails to reveal the quotation Stephan pretends to give. 

 The Tyrians appear elsewhere but Ascalon occurs only as a town 

 name ; of the Rhaphanites' there is no mention. The Dorieis fre- 

 quently referred to by Stephan are not the inhabitants of Dor, but 

 the Greek Dorians. It is quite possible that Stephan here quotes 

 from memory, and with results most disastrous to his argument. 



THE CLEMENTINE EECOGNITIONS. 



In the pseudo-Clementine Recognitions Dor is referred to as a 

 ** breve oppidum." This theological " Tendenz-Romance " repre- 

 sents Peter and his party on their way from Caesarea to Tripolis 

 as stopping overnight in an inn at Dor. On the morrow they con- 

 tinue on their way as far as Ptolemais. The Latin translation of 

 Rufinus of Aquileia (d. 410 A.D.) rea^s as follows' (Book TV: 1): 



Profecti a Caesarea ut Tripolim pergeremus, apud Doram breve 

 oppidum primam fecimus mansionem, quia nee longe aberat. Et 

 omnes paene qui per sermonem Petri crediderant, divelli ab eo satis 

 aegre habebant, sed pariter incedentes, dum iterum videre, iterum 

 complecti iuvat, iterum conferre sermonem, ad diversorium pre- 

 venimus, sequenti vero die venimus Ptolomaidem. 



The Recognitions are probably to be dated at the earliest in the 

 first half of the third century A.D.*. Their older sources go back 

 at least to the end of the second century A.D. Thus we have here 

 the statement that about the year 200 (later or earlier) Dor was 

 known to the writer of the Clementine Recognitions as a small 

 town. 



EUSEBIUS AND JEROME. 



Eusebius (c. 275-c. 340) includes Dor in his Onomasticon* under 

 the two forms Awp rov Na</>a^ and Nat^c^Swp, as follows: (O. S. 

 250:56) 



A(up Tov Na<^a^. avrrj iarl t^s Trapakui^ Aiopa rj irpbs Kouaa/oeuiv t^? 

 UaXaia-TLvrj^. tjv ovk tXaftev 17 <f>v\rj Mavaaa^, otl /xy) dvclXev rov^ iv avry 

 dkko<t>vkov^. (los. 11:2; 17:11, 12.) > 



' Ed. Hitzig & Bluemmer; trans, by Frazer. 



^ Inasmuch as the other cities quoted are on the coast, Raphia is probably 

 here meant, not Raphana of the Decapolis. 



3 Ed. Gersdorf , pp. 114 f . 



* Uhlhom in Hauck-Herzog, Real-EnckL, art. Clementinen; T. Smith in 

 Ante-Nicene Fathers, VIII, p. 74, 



' Onomastica Sacra, ed, Lagarde (2) 1887. 



