III. SELEUCIA, a City of Syria, situate upon the Mediterranean, near the Place where the Orontes discharges it self into this Acts xiii. 4.Sea. St. Paul and St. Barnabas arrived at Seleucia, where they imbarked to go to Cyprus. This is the same City of Seleucia 1 Macc. xi. 8.which is mention’d in the First Book of the Maccabees, where it is said, that Ptolemy Philometor made himself Master of all the maritime Cities as far as Seleucia, which is upon the Sea.
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