IV. 
152 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, authority of Theophanes'. Phocas describes 
the city as totally ruined, without exhibiting 
a trace of its original splendour ^ Brocard, 
Breidenhach, jidrichom'ms, and even Williajn of 
Tyre (who so often introduces an allusion to 
Sephoury, in mentioning its celebrated fountain^), 
are silent as to the existence of this magnificent 
inestimable account of Palestine, a work derived from the purest 
original sources, to exhibit, in a perspicuous and prominent manner, 
the rarest and most valuable intelligence. Yet even Reland is silent 
as to the existence of this building ; which is the more remarkable, 
as it seems obscurely alluded to by these words of yidrkhomius, in 
speaking of SEPrnoRis : " Vklelur quondam Catlicdralem habuisse 
Ecclesiam : nam Ti/rius, in Catalogo Pontificum SiiffWiganeorum Anti- 
ochena Ecclesicr, inter Episvopntus Seleucice, Dioccpsaream secundo 
nominal loco." Vide Adriclwm. in Zahulon. Num. 88. p. 142. Theat. 
Terr. Sand. Co/ow. 1628. 
(1) " Anno aerae Christianse 339 destructa est urbs Sepphoris, ob 
seditionem civium. Ita rem narrat Theophanes, p. 33. Tovtu tm 'iru 
o: xa,vu, 'nci>.aiffrlv'/;v 'lovSaToi avrfiQaV y.a.) vroXXotj; tZv aXXoi^tuv 'EkX^nuv ri 
xai 1a.fjt.a.^uruii a-vuXav' xcc) alroi %\ vayyivsi {■TTayyir/i Cedrenus) u5r« rod 
ffTpaTou 'Vuftaitav uvii^i^riirav xai '/i-voXi; avruv Aioxaitrd^iia r,ipa,sitr6n- " Hoc 
anno (xxv. Constantii) Judcsi in Palastind res novas moliti sunt, e.rci- 
tatd seditione ; plurimisque turn Grcecorum turn Samaritanoruni inter- 
emptis, ipsi tandem omnes ah exercitu Romano inteinecione deleti sunt, 
et urhs eorum Diocasarea diruta." Relandi Palastina, lib. iii. de 
Urb. et Vic. in Nom. Sepphor. 
(2) TJ^iuTa; euv xara rnv XlToXs/^ai^ix la-r)v h 'S.ifi^o)^] 'ttoXi; tvi; raXiXtcia; 
vav<rn aoixos ff^liov, f/,'/m Xs/i^avov rijj {T^^jjv a.lrri; illa.i/Jt.tiyias i/^ipxivouiTa. 
" Prima post Ptolema'idem urbs GalH(P(P Semphori sita est, prorsus 
incultu, atque inhabitabilis, nullumque fere prislincc heatitatis prce se 
fert vestigium." Phocas, de Loc. Paltrstince, x. p. 10. Leon, Allatii 
2TMMIKTA, ed. Bart. Nihus. Colon. 1642. 
(3) " Nostri autem qui apud fontem Sephoritanum, de quo 
scppissitnatn in his tractatihusyiostris fecimus jnentionem," &c. TVillei-mi 
Tyrensis Histor. lib. xxii. c. 36. 
