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that he did not burn it, or deftroy the Build- 

 ings thereof: And though Zofimus^ on this| 

 pccafion, ufes the Words rhjj^oKiv KctTcKFuci^cL^^^ 

 yet that feems only to relate to his demo« 

 lifhing the Walls and Defences of the Place j 

 and that Emperors own Letter extant in 

 Voflfcus^ doth fufficiently Ihew that he {pa- 

 red the City it feif, and that he took care 

 to re-inftate the beautiful Temple of the 

 Sun that was there, which had been Plun- 

 dered by his Soldiers. However, the Da« 

 mage then fiiftained was never retrieved by 

 the^Inhabicants, and I do not find that ever 

 this City made any figure in Hiftory after it v 

 Yet the Latin lafcriftion^ (P<^g- feems 

 to intimate , as if Dioelejlan had reftored 

 their Walls within thirty Years after. About 

 the Year of Chrift 400, it was the Head 

 Quarters of the Legio Prima Illyricorum\ and 

 though Stephanus gives it no better Title 

 than yet it appears to have been an 



Archbifliop's See, under the Metropolitan 

 of JDamafcns, To fay in what Age, or from 

 what Hand it received its finar Overthrow, 

 which reduced it to the, miferable Conditi-r 

 pn it now appears in, there is no light in 

 any of our Hiftorians ; but it is probable it 

 perifiiM long fince, in the obfcure Ages of 

 the World, during the Wars of the Saracen 

 Bmpire ; and being burnt and defblated, it 

 was never rebuilt ; whkh occafiohs the Ruins 

 ta .li? entire, in a manner as they were 

 left, neither being ufed ttf other Stru6:ures 

 0a the: Place, nor worth carrying away, be- 

 caufe of th^ great dillance thereof from any 

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