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CHALCIS, a City and Principality of Syria, situated between Libanus and Antilibanus1. There is no mention of it in the sacred Books. But Josephus often speaks of it; and it was possessed by some of Herod’s Posterity with the title of a Kingdom; as it was likewise by Ptolemy the Son of Mennæus.
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Vide Strabo, l. xvi. p. 753. & Joseph. Antiq. l. xiv. ↩
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