Arsoffa.
The next Day we past by the Ruins of a large Monastery of theMaronites, as I guess it to have been by an Inscription we met with upon the Capitals of several Marble Pillars, which supported the middle Isle of a handsome Church, which was to this effect.
† ΕΠΙ ΣΕΡΓΙΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΚΟ. ΤΟΥ ΣΥΝΓΕΝ~ ΜΑΡΩΝΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΧΩΡΕΠΙΣΚΟ.
From thence we past on, and came the same Night toEuphrates, and having travelled two Days on the Banks of that Famous River, we came to the Tents of the King of theArabs, who had furnish'd us with a Guide for our Voyage. With him we remained two Nights, and in two Days Travel more came back safe toAleppo, having been out in the whole just 18 Days.
The Reverend and Learned Author of this Account, cannot with Justice be censured, if some Minute Particulars of the History of this Place, have escaped his Memory, being obliged to write without recourse to the Books proper for his purpose, which were not to be had in that Country. We have since procured a Curious Prospect of these Noble Ruins, taken on the Place; which, with some further Remarks thereon, are here Published.
FOOTNOTES:[14]ThisAssynewas in the Year of our Lord 1693. Deposed by theTurks, and oneDoradvanced to fill his place; so that now he is constrained to live upon Rapine, being followed by a considerable Number of Men, who delight not to Labour, nor to live under any settled Government.[15]'Tis not improbable that ΟΛΟΓΕΣΙΑΣ might have been the Name of a Person.Vologesesis a known Name in History among theParthianKings; to which the other seems to bear a great Affinity.[16]Plin. Secun. Ep. l.2. Tells us of one, who was accused of an Illegal Exaction of Money from a Province,Titulo Unguentarii; now what was in that case unjustly exacted, might be in this a Voluntary Donation, not of the Province to the Governour, but of a great Man to the People. Or elseUnguentariummay be supposed to be a Donative, likeClavariumorCulinarium, used sometimes by theRomans.[17]This Word I find both inTacitusandStrabo, used for a kind of Ships or Boats, long, narrow, light, and capable of receiving 20, or at most 30 Men; but what they should do with Boats in an Inland Town, without either River or Lake near it, I cannot imagine. I rather adhere to the other signification.
[14]ThisAssynewas in the Year of our Lord 1693. Deposed by theTurks, and oneDoradvanced to fill his place; so that now he is constrained to live upon Rapine, being followed by a considerable Number of Men, who delight not to Labour, nor to live under any settled Government.
[14]ThisAssynewas in the Year of our Lord 1693. Deposed by theTurks, and oneDoradvanced to fill his place; so that now he is constrained to live upon Rapine, being followed by a considerable Number of Men, who delight not to Labour, nor to live under any settled Government.
[15]'Tis not improbable that ΟΛΟΓΕΣΙΑΣ might have been the Name of a Person.Vologesesis a known Name in History among theParthianKings; to which the other seems to bear a great Affinity.
[15]'Tis not improbable that ΟΛΟΓΕΣΙΑΣ might have been the Name of a Person.Vologesesis a known Name in History among theParthianKings; to which the other seems to bear a great Affinity.
[16]Plin. Secun. Ep. l.2. Tells us of one, who was accused of an Illegal Exaction of Money from a Province,Titulo Unguentarii; now what was in that case unjustly exacted, might be in this a Voluntary Donation, not of the Province to the Governour, but of a great Man to the People. Or elseUnguentariummay be supposed to be a Donative, likeClavariumorCulinarium, used sometimes by theRomans.
[16]Plin. Secun. Ep. l.2. Tells us of one, who was accused of an Illegal Exaction of Money from a Province,Titulo Unguentarii; now what was in that case unjustly exacted, might be in this a Voluntary Donation, not of the Province to the Governour, but of a great Man to the People. Or elseUnguentariummay be supposed to be a Donative, likeClavariumorCulinarium, used sometimes by theRomans.
[17]This Word I find both inTacitusandStrabo, used for a kind of Ships or Boats, long, narrow, light, and capable of receiving 20, or at most 30 Men; but what they should do with Boats in an Inland Town, without either River or Lake near it, I cannot imagine. I rather adhere to the other signification.
[17]This Word I find both inTacitusandStrabo, used for a kind of Ships or Boats, long, narrow, light, and capable of receiving 20, or at most 30 Men; but what they should do with Boats in an Inland Town, without either River or Lake near it, I cannot imagine. I rather adhere to the other signification.