History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . iption of the year196 found in the neighborhoodcontains the expression of thecitys desire for the safety ofSeverus and Julia Domna, themother of the camps. 3 On the eastern slope of MountLebanon and beyond the Jordan,Rome had had much to Trajans time Batanaea(Hauran) and Trachonitis (Ledja)were, as they are to-day, wil-dernesses traversed by savage nomads. Agrippa the Jewish kingsaid to them : You live like wild beasts in their lairs. 5 Trajan 1 Upon the statue of Memnon all proskynemata of
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . iption of the year196 found in the neighborhoodcontains the expression of thecitys desire for the safety ofSeverus and Julia Domna, themother of the camps. 3 On the eastern slope of MountLebanon and beyond the Jordan,Rome had had much to Trajans time Batanaea(Hauran) and Trachonitis (Ledja)were, as they are to-day, wil-dernesses traversed by savage nomads. Agrippa the Jewish kingsaid to them : You live like wild beasts in their lairs. 5 Trajan 1 Upon the statue of Memnon all proskynemata of soldiers or officials are in Latin: seeLetronne, /user. dlSgypte, ii. Herod., iii. 3. 3 Waddington, Inscr. de Syria, 1,843. Under Caracalla, the Third Gallic Legion cutthrough rocks (the inscription says mountains) which obstructed the course of the Lycus{Ibid. 1,845). 4 Statue of Luni marble. Museum of the Capitol. This statue has been preserved withthe antique head. 6 eiMJHoXevo-avres (Waddington, op. cit. 2,32!i). Cf. Josephus, Ant. Jud. xiv. 15, 5, andVol. IV. p. 6 of this JULIA DOMNA, THE WIFE OF COMMODUS, PEETINAX, Jl s, S, L80 TO 211 a. v. 517 and Hadrian had introduced order and life into these regions, wheregreat and splendid cities had arisen; and Severus carried on theirwork. Doubtless he also visited the province of Arabia, where aRoman legion had not long before revolted. The name of Septimiani,borne by the decurions of Batanaea, connects with his reign, bya tie which unfortunately we cannot trace, the municipal organiza-tion of this region. Ruins of cities are found here whose inhabitantshad the language, the measures, the calendar, and many usagesbelonging to An imperial legate wrote to these Arabs,into whose country the modern traveller now penetrates only atthe risk of his life, as he would have written to the magistratesof Spain or of Gaul, to guarantee them against, the abuse ofmilitary billet,—a proof that on thi
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