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 AHTIOCHEIA. AMTIOCHEIA. AA. Clt7 of SOmeas Niotor. ff. Wall of ITieodoaiM. BB. New Citj of Selcociu Cam. Sg.WJ1ofJo.amaD. ii. Godhtfi Camp. DD. Mount Silpns. 1. Altnr of Juidlcr. EE. Modem Town. (!». Riret OronlM. 3. Theatre. bb. Ro»d to Selennii. 4. CiUdoI. cc. Road to Daphne. 6. CastlB of the Cnuoders. et Wall rf Eppianas and Ti- 7. Omphalns. 8. Forum. Pbaiulia was introduced at Antioch in honour of Caesai, who erected manj pnblic worku there : among others, a Ihealrt under the rocks of Silpiui (t1> Inri T# fipei SiarjHw). and an amphWl besides au aqoeduct and baths, anl a InsiJica Ciuiariam. Auguatns ahowed the same favour to the people of Atltioch, and was similarlj flattered by them, and the era of Actium Kas intnidnced into their ajsleni of chronolc^. In this reign Agiippa bnilt a anborb, and Hard the Great contribotwl a road and a colonnade. (Joseph. AnI. Kvi. 5. § 3, B. J. i. 21. § 11.) The most memotsble event of llio reign of Tiberius, connected with Antioch, was tile death of Germaniciia. Along catalogue of works erected ly successive emperors might be given; but it is enough to refer to the Chnmograpkia of M«- iala, which ewma to be based do official documents*, and Khifh tony be easily consulted by means of the Index in the Bonn edition. We need only instance the baths of Cahgiihi, Trajan, and Hadrian, the paving of the great street with Egyptian granite by Antonioiu Pius, the .^jritus or pnblic walk built bj Commodus, and the palace built by Diocletian, • Gibbon asye : "We may distinguish bie an- thentic information of domestic facts from his pmss ignonuice of general history." Cb. Ii. vol. ii. p. 414, ed- Uilniaa. 9. Senate Honac. 10. Huaeum. 11. Tancred'i Castle. I. Tnyan's Aqueduct. 1. Badrian'a Aqueduct. 14. Caligula's Aquojuct. 16. Caesar's Aqtieduct 16. Xystus. 17. Herod's Colonnade. i. Nyniphaemn, 19. P^ace. 20, Circus. who also eatabliibtd there pul^ stems and manifie- tnrea of arms. At Antioch two of tlie mat stiikinf; calamltiea of the period wers the carthquike d Trajan's reign, daring winch the empervr, whe wit then at Antioch, took refuge in the Circiu: and the capture uf the eitj by tlw Persians under Sapcr ia 260 A. D. On tUa occasion the cilitens wen in- tently occofded iu the theatre, wben the enemy sar- prined them &om the rocks abore. (Anun. Utic siiii. 5.) The interval between Constantino and Jnstimu may be regarded as the Byzantine period of Ihe his- tory of Antioch. After the fonnding of Conetanti- ncple it ceased to be the principal city of tb " " .1 began leEasL Christian city, ranking as a Patrianhal see with Con- stantinople and Aleiandim. WiththeformerofCheH cities it was connectedby the great road tfaroogh Asia Minor, and with the hitter, by the coast road Uirouj;h Cu«area. (See WeaseUng, Ant. Itin. p. 147; Itin. Hieros. p. 5B1.} Ten councils nerelield at^itiodB between Ibe years 23! and 3B0; audit b«anie dis- linguialieil by a new style rf building, in mnordicB with Christian worship. One chunA especially, begun by Constantino, and flnL.hed itj his SCO), de- duukIs oor notice. It was the same chureta which Julian closed and Jovian restored to Christian use, and the same in which Cbrysostom preached. He