Kitap 14
8.11
The last region of the Syrias is Palestine, extending over a great extent of territory and abounding in cultivated and well-kept lands; it also has some splendid cities, none of which yields to any of the others, but they rival one another, as it were, by plumb-line.I.e. exactly. These are Caesarea, which HerodesHerod the Great. built in honour of the emperor Octavianus,Augustus. Eleutheropolis, and Neapolis, along with Ascalon and Gaza, built in a former age.
8.12
In these districts no navigable river is anywhere to be seen, but in numerous places natural warm springs gush forth, adapted to many medicinal uses. But these regions also met with a like fate, being formed into a province by Pompey, after he had defeated the Jews and taken Jerusalem,In 63 B.C. but left to the jurisdiction of a governor.
