ANTIPATRIS, called anciently Caphar -Saba1. Adricomius has confounded it with Dora, and James de Vitry with Assus or Arsus, a maritime town of Palestine2. Antipatris did not border upon the Sea; for it lay in the way from Jerusalem to Cæsarea. Josephus3 says, it was about one hundred Acts xxiii. 31.and fifty furlongs, or about seventeen miles from Joppa. The old Itinerary of Jerusalem places it at ten miles distance from Lydda, and six and twenty from Cæsarea. Herod the Great changed its old name, and gave it that of Antipatris, in honour of his Father Antipater, whom we have spoken of above. Antipatris was situated in a very fruitful and agreeable plain4, watered with many fine springs and rivulets, and pretty near the mountains in the way from Jerusalem to Cæsarea.
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