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We must now speak of the interior of Syria. Cœle Syria
has the town of Apamea [Note], divided by the river Marsyas from the Tetrarchy of the Nazerini [Note]; Bambyx, the other name of which is Hierapolis [Note], but by the Syrians called Mabog [Note], (here the monster Atargatis [Note], called Derceto by the Greeks, is worshipped); and the place called Chalcis [Note] on the Belus [Note], from which the region of Chalcidene, the most fertile part of Syria, takes its name. We here find also Cyrrhestice, with Cyrrhum [Note], the Gazatæ, the Gindareni, the Gabeni, the two Tetrarchies called Granucomatæ [Note], the Emeseni [Note], the Hyla-
tæ [Note], the nation of the Ituræi, and a branch of them, the people called the Bætarreni; the Mariamitani [Note], the Tetrarchy known as Marnmisea, Paradisus [Note], Pagræ [Note], the Pinaritæ [Note], two cities called Seleucia, besides the one already mentioned, the one Seleucia on the Euphrates [Note], and the other Seleucia [Note] on the Belus, and the Cardytenses. The remaining part of Syria (except those parts which will be spoken of in conjunction with the Euphrates) contains the Arethusii [Note], the Berœenses [Note], and the Epiphanæenses [Note];
and on the east, the Laodiceni [Note], who are called the Laodiceni on the Libanus, the Leucadii [Note], and the Larissæi, besides seventeen other Tetrarchies, divided into kingdoms and bearing barbarous names.
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