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CLARKE'S TRAVELS, 
ment; a Del Vespasian was himself on board the Homan Heel, 
The rebel army consisted of an immense .multitude' of seditious 
people, from all the towns of the country, and especially from 
those bordering upon the lake, who, as fugitives after the cap¬ 
ture, of Tarichaea* * * § by Titus, had sough trefuge upon the water. 
The victory gained by the Romans was followed by such a 
terrible slaughter of the Jews, that nothing was to be seen, ei¬ 
ther upon the lake or along its shores, except blood, and the 
mangled corpses of the insurgents : their dead bodies infected 
the air to such a degree, that the victors, as well as the van¬ 
quished, were sufferers upon the occasion : the number of the 
slain, after the two actions, (that of Tarichtza and the naval 
engagement which followed,) amounted to six thousand five 
hundred persons. Neither was the slaughter less memorable 
of the prisoners, who were marched to Tiberias as soon as the 
victory had been obtained. Vespasian caused them all to be 
shut up in the amphitheatre ; where twelve hundred of them 
were put to death, being unable or unfit to bear arms. This 
amphitheatre, according to the account given by Josephus, was 
large enough to containf thirty-seven thousand six hun¬ 
dred persons, (beside a vast number of others who were 
given as slaves by Vespasian to Agrippa, as well as of the in» 
habitants of Trachonitis^ Gaulon,$ Hippos,|| and Gadara : m the 
sum to?al whereof he has not mentioned,) ail of whom were 
mountaineers of Anti Libanus and Hermon, or restless tribes of 
freebooters from eastern Syria; unable, as Josephus describes 
them, to sustain a life of peace, and exhibiting, eighteen huu- 
* Tarichaea was situated beyond the baths of Emmaus, at the southern extremity of 
the Lake of Gennesareth, three miles and three quarters distant from Tiberias; or 
thirty stadia, according to Josephus. Between these two cities Vespasian’s army was 
often encamped, and generally at the baths of Emma us. Pliny, speaking of Tarichm „ 
says, that, by some, the lake was called after the name of this city. ,l A meridie 
Tarichea quo nomine aliqui et lacum appellant.” (Plin. Hid. Nat. lib: v. cap. 15. L. 
Bat.'1635. tom. l.p. 262.) In the same manner, the Lake of Geneva is by some called 
Lake of Lausanne; and especially h}' Gibbon, who was offended at being censured for 
it. T he author once heard him express an intention of proving this last to be the on¬ 
ly correct appellation. 
| Future travellers will perhaps discover the remains of a building of this magni¬ 
tude. 
\ Trachonitis was the country near Damascus, to the east of Hermon and Anti- 
Libanus. 
§ Gaulon gave its name to the district called Gaulonitis, beyond Jordan, on the east¬ 
ern side of the Lake of Gennesareth. D’Anville has not placed it in his map of Pa* 
laestine. It was one of the six cities of refuge. 
|| A city opposite to Tiberias, upon the Lake Gennesareth. at the southwestern 
extremity of a ridge of mountains bearing the same name, and being a branch of the 
chain of Hermon. 
A city beyond Jordan, distant seven miles anda half from the Lake Gennesareth. 
Like Hippos, it gave its name to a small province. The hot baths of Gadara are 
mentioned by Epiphanies. Gadara, according to Polybius, was one of the strongest 
•siU®3 «£ the country. 
