History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ntioch, like Byzantium,therefore, was first punished, and then favored. On his return fromMesopotamia, he stopped in the old Syrian metropolis, not for thepurpose of enjoying the delights of Daphne in the pleasure-hauntedshades of the sanctuary of Apollo, but to efface the memory of his 1 Upon the coins of Trajans reign Nineveh is called Colonia Augusta. Dion, a con-temporary of Severus. says of Nineveh: rjfKTtpa tori ml mrotKOS r;/iii>i/ vopi&Tai (xxxvi. t;). 2 Lebas and Waddington, Voyage archeol
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ntioch, like Byzantium,therefore, was first punished, and then favored. On his return fromMesopotamia, he stopped in the old Syrian metropolis, not for thepurpose of enjoying the delights of Daphne in the pleasure-hauntedshades of the sanctuary of Apollo, but to efface the memory of his 1 Upon the coins of Trajans reign Nineveh is called Colonia Augusta. Dion, a con-temporary of Severus. says of Nineveh: rjfKTtpa tori ml mrotKOS r;/iii>i/ vopi&Tai (xxxvi. t;). 2 Lebas and Waddington, Voyage archeol. No. 1,480. The inscription in No. 616 show?these two provinces united to G alalia. 8 Under Alexander Severus there were live legions in Syria and in Palestine, vi. 83 514 THE AFRICAN AND SYRIAN PRINCES, 180 TO 235 a. d. former severities. There he gave his eldest son the toga virilis (201),and appointed him consul designate for the. following year. Thiswas treating Antioch as a capital. These solemnities and theiraccompanying festivities at once had their effect in bringing the. PLAQUES OF GOLD OF THE SECOND OB THIRD CENTURY, FOUND IN frivolous city into friendly relations with the new dynasty, andSeverus completed the reconciliation in causing magnificent bathsto be built at 1 No. 1, Dionysus; No. 2. Silenus ; No. 3, a box in which the plaques were kept. Cabi-net de France. Cf. Gazelle archeol 1875, pi. 2, and p. 513, a dissertation by Baron de Witte. 2 Chronicles of Eusebius and Saint Jerome, ad ann. 202, and Malalas, p. 294, in theByzantine Chronicle. COMMODUS, PEKTINAX. JULIANUS, SEVEKUS, 180 TO -11 a. d. 515 In Phoenician Syria great public works were undertaken. Fourmilitary milestones, which have been found on the road from Sourto Sayda, all bearing similar inscriptions, dated in the year 198,show the Emperors lieutenant putting in repair the roads in thisprovince; the name of Severug engraved upon another milestone
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