History of Dor. - * '- - * '- " 101 



mony must, therefore, be carefully questioni&d^t mo^t'points.' His 

 quotations are not always strictly accurate\ 



HIEROCLES. 



Hierocles, a grammarian, who is supposed to have lived in the 

 sixth century A. D.^, wrote in Greek a " Handbook for Travellers " 

 (Svv€k8i;/>ios), which lists the towns and provinces under the Eastern 

 emperor at Constantinople. Dor is included among the cities in the 

 first of the three divisions of the province of Palestine, as follows^ : 



E7ra/o;j(ia IlaAato-TtVrys, viro KOvaovXapiOVy -rroXeis k^ : 



Katcrapeia fxrjTpoTroXi^ 



Aw pa 



AvrtTrarpts 



AtOOTTToAtS 



^A^ojTos 7rapdXLO<i 



"A^WTos /xecrdyeios, ktX. 



"The province of Palestine, under a proconsul, 22 cities: 



Caesarea, metropolis 



Dor 



Antipatris 



Diospolis 



Azotus on the coast 



Azotus inland, etc., etc." 



In the fifth century the three-fold partition of Palestine (which 

 is here used by Hierocles) into Palestina Prima (or Maritima), Pal- 

 estina Secunda, and Palestina Tertia (or Salutaris) began to pre- 

 vail. These divisions were at once political and ecclesiastical, and 

 continued during the time of the Crusades. The first division 

 included the coast region as far as Carmel, w^ith Caesarea as its 

 metropolis or archbishop's see. Dor is, as here, prevailingly named 

 immediately after adjacent Caesarea. These early lists of towns 

 are repeatedly copied by later writers, sometimes with modifica- 

 tions, but apparently without investigation into the question of the 

 contemporary state of the cities^ 



^ See on Josephus (pp. 86 f.), and on Pausanias (p. 97 f.). 

 ' Lippincott on the name ; Burckhardt, Hieroclis Synecdemus, p. XIV 

 (before 535 A. D.). 

 3 Hierocles Grammaticus, ed. Parthey, p. 43 ; ed. Burckhardt, p. 41. 

 '* Socin in Enc. Bib., 3548 f., s.v. Palestine. 

 ^ See on Georgius Cyprius below. 



