220 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP. Xhe old Hebrew city, whatever was its name, 
' ...ly-i ,/ probably owed its birth to the renown of its 
baths. Some of the most antient temples in 
the world, together with the cities to which 
they belonged, had a similar origin \ Tiberias, 
according to some authors ^ was built by Tibe- 
rius the Roman Emperor, who called it after his 
own name. But Josephus relates, that Herod 
the Tetrarch erected it in honour of Tiberius, 
with whom he was in great favour'. For this 
purpose^ it is said, he selected the most suitable 
place in all Galilee, upon the border of the Lake 
Gennesareth. The ample document afforded 
by Josephus is sufficient to prove that Herod s city 
was precisely on the spot occupied by the town 
as it now stands ; for in the account given by 
him of its situation, he describes the hot baths 
of Emmaus as being out of the city, and not far 
from it"*. Very considerable privileges were 
given to those who chose to settle there ; the 
(1) Witness the temple oi Jupiter in Mount Ida, mentioned by Homer 
and by ^schylus ; the temple oi ^sculapius in Epidauria ; &c. &c. 
(2) "O; Krlffa; mXiv Iv rij'lovoaia, ixaXlffiv cchrm u; re liiov i'uofta Tific^ixax- 
" Is urbcm in Judced condidit, et de nomine suo appellavit Tiberiada ' 
Joel in C/ironographia, p. 162. £adem ha;c leguntur apud Michaelem 
dycam in Annal. part 3, p. 233. \iA. Reland. Palo'st. Jllust. torn. II. 
p. 1037. 
(3) Aatiquit. lib. xviii. c. 3. et De Bell. Jud. lib. ii. c. 8. 
(4) Ibid. 
