134 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, it, but made it the chief city of his tetrarchy^ 
'^— N • Here was held one of the five Sanhedrims of 
Judea^. Its inhabitants often revolted against 
the Romans^. It was so advantageously situate 
for defence, that it was deemed impregnable. 
In later ages, it bore the name of Dioc.esarea*. 
Josephus relates, that the inhabitants of Sepphoris 
amicably entreated Vespasian, when he arrived 
in PtolemaTs*. Harduin commemorates medals 
of the city, coined afterwards, under the Romans, 
in the reigns oi Domitian and of Trajan^. We 
Medals,, were not fortunate in our search for medals, 
either here, or in any other part of the Holy 
(1) Joseph. XviXKi. lib. xviii. c. 3. 
(2) Ibid. lib. xiv. c. 10. 
(3) Of which instances are mentioned by various authors. O/ Iv 
Aisxaiiraeiia rlns YlaXaiffriv'/iS ''Icv^cclm koltu. 'Pcuftaiaiv oxXa avTr.oeuv. (Socrat. 
Hist. II. c. 33.) "Judtn qui Dwrersareani PalasttncB incolebant contra 
Romanos arma siimserunt." See also Sozomen. Histor. lib. iv. c. 7- 
(4) CeUar'ms, torn. II. p. 499- Lips. 1706. and the authors by him 
cited. Hieroni/mus de Locis Ebr. in Araba : ^'Est et alia villa, Jiabu 
nomine, inJinibusDioca'sarecE, qua olim Saphorine dicebatur." Hegesippus, 
lib. i. cap. 30. " Prceveniens adventus siti nuntio Sepphorim prisco voci- 
tatam 7iomine, qimm Dioccesaream pnsfea 7iuncupaverunt." 
5) Kat Kara, rocvrviV v-JtaiTuffn uvtm t>jv croX/» oi rij; VaXiXmct; "^iv^u^iy 
iift,i/A.t)iei, rZv T^?s u^nnxk fooyoZvTii. ' In hdc porro civitate occurrerunt 
ei Sepphorittp, qui Galilcea oppidum incoiunt, animis pacis studi/tsis.*' 
Joseph, lib. iii. Bell. Jud. cap. 1. 
(6) CEnooPHMXlN. " Domitiani ac Trajani nuniroi, e Cimelio 
Regie, quorum postremum laudat Patinus, p. 183, cum palmee effigie, 
qui PhcEUices in primis, ac JudiPfe typus." Harduini Niimm. Antiq-. 
niust. p. 449. Paris, 1684. See also Palin. p. 146. and Faillan*„ 
Imp. August, et Cas. Numism. pp. 23, 31. Par. 1698. 
