[568] See p. 193.
[569] Founded and developed by Macedonian Kings of Syria, beginning at 300 B.C. For a full history, see Mülller, Antiq. Antioch., Götting., 1839. For a topographical and sociological account the bulk of the materials are to be found in Libanius, Chrysostom, and Jn. Malala.
[570] On the taking of Antioch, etc., cf. Jn. Lydus, De Magistr., iii, 54. Not a taxpayer was left in Syria, he says, but nevertheless the Rector had to extort the revenue out of the province in some way.
[571] Five thousand pounds of gold (£200,000) paid down, and five hundred (£20,000) annually. The latter was for the upkeep of the Caspian gates, which he, like his father, chafed at having to guard without specified assistance from the Romans; Procopius, loc. cit., 10.
[572] Apamea was one of those places where a log of wood, said to be a fragment of the true cross, was preserved and venerated. On this occasion it was brought out and paraded, a miraculous light following the Bishop as he went on his round with it; Procopius, loc. cit., 11 (by hearsay); Evagrius, iv, 26, who says he was taken to see it himself when a schoolboy. Chosroes did not allow his soldiers unbounded licence. Thus, when a citizen of Apamea complained that his daughter had been ravished, he hanged the man, in spite of the prayers of his comrades.
[573] Procopius, Anecd., 2.
[574] Ibid., 15, 28.
[575] Procopius, Anecd., 2.
[576] Cf. Zachariah Myt., xii, 7.
[577] Procopius, De Bel. Goth., iv, 11, et seq.; where he continues his history of the Persian war after the record closes in his work specified to that subject.