[16.51] Jos. _Ant._ xiv. x. 6, 11, 14. [16.52] Eccl. x. 25, 27. [16.53] Rom. i. 24, &c. [16.54] Zach. viii. 23. [16.55] Hor. Sat. I. ix. 69; Pers. v. 179, &c. Juv. Sat. vi. 159; xiv. 96, &c. [16.56] Contr. Apion ii. 39. [16.57] Pers. v. 179-184; Juv. vi. 157-160. The remarkable preoccupation about Judaism which may be observed in the Roman writers of the first century, especially the satirists, arises from this circumstance. [16.58] Juv. Sat. iii. 62, &c. [16.59] Cic. _De Prov._ consul, 5. [16.60] The children whose appearance had most pleased me on my first visit, I found four years later, ugly, vulgar, and stupid. [16.61] Πατρῷοις θεοῖς a very frequent formula in the inscriptions of the Syrians (Corp. Inscr. Græc. Nos. 4449, 4450, 4451, 4463, 4479, 4480, 6015). [16.62] Corp. Inscr. Græc. Nos. 4474, 4475, 5936; _Mission de Phenicie_, I. ii c. ii. (in press), inscription of Abeda. Comp. Corpus, Nos. 2271, 5853. [16.63] Ζεύς οὐράνιος, ἐπουράνιος, ὕψιστος, μέγιστος, θεὸς σατράπης, Corpus Inscr. Gr. Nos. 4500, 4501, 4502, 4503, 6012; Lepsius, Denkmæler, t. xii fol. 100. No. 590. Mission de Phenicie, p. 103, 104. [16.64] I have developed this in the _Journal Asiatique_ for February 1859, p. 259, &c., and in _Mission de Phenicie_, 1. II. c. ii. [16.65] Syrian code in Land, _Anecdota Syriaca_, i. p. 152, and different facts which I have witnessed. [16.66] Born in Haran. [16.67] See Forcellini, word _Syrus._ This word designates Orientals generally. Leblant, _Inscript._ Chrét. de la Gaule, i. p. 207, 328, 329. [16.68] Juvenal, iii. 62-63. [16.69] Such is at this day the temperament of the Syrian Christian. [16.70] Inscriptions in _Mem._ de la Soc. des Antiquaires de Fr. t. xxviii. 4, &c. Leblant, Inscript. Chrét. de la Gaule, i. p. cxliv. 207, 324, &c. 353, &c. ii. 259, 459, &c. [16.71] The Maronites colonize still in nearly all the Levant like the Jews, Armenians, and Greeks, though on a smaller scale. [16.72] Cic. _De Offic._ i. 42; Dion. Hal. ii. 28; ix. 28. [16.73] See the characters of slaves in Plautus and Terence. [16.74] II. Cor. xii. 9. [16.75] Tacit. _Ann._ ii. 85. CHAPTER XVII. [17.1] Tacit. _Ann._ i. 2; Florus, iv. 3; Pomponius in the Digest, 1; I. Tit. ii., fr. 2. [17.2] Helicon. Apelles, Euceres, etc. The Oriental kings were considered by the Romans to surpass in tyranny the worst of the emperors. Dion. Cassius lix. 24. [17.3] See inscription of the Parasite of Antony in the _Comptes Rendus de l'Acad. des Inscr. et B. L._, 1864, p. 166, etc. Comp. Tacit. _Ann._ iv. 55, 56.