[551] Mesopotamia in the text is no doubt an error of the copyist. We ought probably to read Commagene. Groskurd proposes to read “Commagene, like Mesopotamia, consisted of one satrapy.” Groskurd’s emendation of the text is followed, although not approved of, by Kramer.
[552] These four portions were no doubt formed by the four hills contained within the circuit of Antioch. The circuit wall existed in the time of Pococke. The detailed and exact description given of it by this learned traveller, as also his plan of Antioch, agree with Strabo’s account. Pococke, Descrip. of the East, ii. p. 190.
[554] Mount Soldin.
[555] Orontes, or Nahr-el-Asy.
[556] Beit-el-ma.
[557] B. xii. c. viii. § [19]; b. xiii. c. iv. § [6].
[558] Also Hierapolis, the modern Kara Bambuche.
[559] Berœa owes its name to Seleucus Nicator, and continued to be so called till the conquest of the Arabs under Abu Obeidah, A. D. 638, when it resumed its ancient name of Chaleb, or Chalybon.
[560] The territory subject to the town Cyrrhus, now Coro.