. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. nus once flowed through the middU of thecity. Kither, therefore, the city has ilwindledto almost nothing, or the Cydnus lias shifted itschannel, as the present Tersoos is at some dis-tance from the river. f(mv cTilvaov i] \ipvrf T^t Tapuov. Strabo, xiv. 5 (p. 227, Tauchnitz). See plan, p. 78. riut. Ant. 26. f77i XovKiov KirpoTrlov tou Xa/iTrpoTorou t)yov-fievov r);v iit\T)pa>6rj i] 7rfpi(pfta Tov aradiov. Inscription at Tarsus, Boeckb, 4437. so [ 39] HISTORY OF TARSUS. [Chap. V. discussion amongst the aged, and of athletic exercises amongst the
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. nus once flowed through the middU of thecity. Kither, therefore, the city has ilwindledto almost nothing, or the Cydnus lias shifted itschannel, as the present Tersoos is at some dis-tance from the river. f(mv cTilvaov i] \ipvrf T^t Tapuov. Strabo, xiv. 5 (p. 227, Tauchnitz). See plan, p. 78. riut. Ant. 26. f77i XovKiov KirpoTrlov tou Xa/iTrpoTorou t)yov-fievov r);v iit\T)pa>6rj i] 7rfpi(pfta Tov aradiov. Inscription at Tarsus, Boeckb, 4437. so [ 39] HISTORY OF TARSUS. [Chap. V. discussion amongst the aged, and of athletic exercises amongst the youth of thecity.^= In the civil wars that followed ujjon the assassination of the first Caesar, Tarsuswas unfortunate. Like most other cities, it had two parties, one of which favouredBrutus and Cassius, and the other Octavius and Antony. Cassius was the first topresent himself at their gates, when they received him with open arms, and publiclycrowned him. Shortly afterwards arrived Dolahella, the partisan of Octavius and. Fig. :iG.~FalU of the Ct/dnus. From Labftrde. Antony, when, witli a levity for which they were distinguished, they received himwith the highest honours, and shouted for Octavius and Antony. For this vacillationthey paid dearly. Cassius, having defeated Dolahella, marched upon Tarsus, and laidon it a fine of 1500 talents, or about £365,625. Cassius himself retired, but left aforce to exact the penalty. In order to raise so enormous a sum, the public profiertywas first exhausted, and then the sacred f)late used in the service of the gods; but asthe amount still fell short of the mark, their hard masters proceeded to a sale of thecitizens themselves—first the young of both sexes, then the old, and lastly those ofprime age. However, before these cruelties were brought to a conclusion, Cassiusreturned to Tarsus, and, pitying so much misery, remitted the remainder of thetribute.^ Stralx A pp. ?.. C. Gi. Chap. V.] HISTORY OF TARSUS. [ 39] 81 After the
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