I. ARBELA. We know more Cities than one of this name in Palestine. Josephus speaks of a place called Arbela in Galilee, near Sephoris1. Bacchides in his way from Antioch to Judæa incamped at Arbela. There were caverns near Arbela, of a very difficult access, whither thieves sometimes retired. Herod found means to force them thence2, but they returned afterwards, and did a great deal of mischief in the country. He says, that being sent Governour of Galilee in the beginning of the war against the Romans, he fortified a place called Arbela3.
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