# Naturalis Historia 5.74

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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74] Iungitur et latere Syriae Decapolitana regio, a numero oppidorum, in quo non omnes eadem observant, primum tamen Damascum epoto riguis amne Chrysorroa fertilem, Philadelphiam, Rhaphanam, omnia in Arabiam recedentia, Scythopolim, antea Nysam, a Libero Patre sepulta nutrice ibi Scythis deductis, Gadara, Hieromice praefluente, et iam dictum Hippon, Dion, Pellam aquis divitem, Garasam, Canatham. intercursant cinguntque has urbes tetrarchiae — regnorum instar singulae, et regna contribuuntur — Trachonitis, Paneas, in qua Caesarea cum supra dicto fonte, Abila, Arca, Ampeloessa, Gabe.

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