. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF PETKA. From Bartlctt. The spectator is looking to the west, up tlie ravine by ^vliich Petra was approached. See the KEY-PLAN OF PETllA. From face Vol. i. /. 66. Chap. V.] HISTORY OF DAMASCUS. [ 37] sad necessity of laying violent hands upon their own. The subject provinces of theEast now lay at the mercy of Augustus, and in the distribution of his new dominionsthe conqueror thus disposed of the kingdom of Chaleis: Itursea, Traehonitis, Gaula-nitis, Batan^ea, Auranitis, and Paneas were farmed out to Zenon, or Zeno
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF PETKA. From Bartlctt. The spectator is looking to the west, up tlie ravine by ^vliich Petra was approached. See the KEY-PLAN OF PETllA. From face Vol. i. /. 66. Chap. V.] HISTORY OF DAMASCUS. [ 37] sad necessity of laying violent hands upon their own. The subject provinces of theEast now lay at the mercy of Augustus, and in the distribution of his new dominionsthe conqueror thus disposed of the kingdom of Chaleis: Itursea, Traehonitis, Gaula-nitis, Batan^ea, Auranitis, and Paneas were farmed out to Zenon, or Zenodorus, awealthy capitalist; Abilene was now, or not long after, allotted to Lysanias II. (with thetitle of Tetrarch)—the son or grandson of Lysanias I., who had been so unjustly put todeath by Mark Antony ; and Chaleis itself was annexed to the prefecture of Syria.^* Damascus, like the commercial cities of Tyre and Sidon,^* had at this time influenceenough, through its opulent biu-gesses, to obtain the privilege of a self-governing muni-cipality,^ subject of coiirse to the supervision of the Syrian Prefect. During thegentle sway of Lysanias II. over the highlands in the im
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