[two
great] friends.

2. Yet did he not preserve their memory by particular buildings only,
with their names given them, but his generosity went as far as entire
cities; for when he had built a most beautiful wall round a country in
Samaria, twenty furlongs long, and had brought six thousand inhabitants
into it, and had allotted to it a most fruitful piece of land, and in
the midst of this city, thus built, had erected a very large temple to
Caesar, and had laid round about it a portion of sacred land of three
furlongs and a half, he called the city Sebaste, from Sebastus, or
Augustus, and settled the affairs of the city after a most regular
manner.

3. And when Caesar had further bestowed upon him another
additional country, he built there also a temple of white marble, hard
by the fountains of Jordan: the place is called Panium, where is a top
of a mountain that is raised to an immense height, and at its side,
beneath, or at its bottom, a dark cave opens itself; within which there
is a horrible precipice, that descends abruptly to a vast depth; it
contains a mighty quantity of water, which is immovable; and when any
body lets down any thing to measure the depth of the earth beneath the
water, no length of cord is sufficient to reach it. Now the fountains of
Jordan rise at the roots of this cavity outwardly; and, as some think,
this is the utmost origin of Jordan: but we shall speak of that matter
more accurately in our following history.

4. But the king erected other places at Jericho also, between the
citadel Cypros and the former palace, such as were better and more
useful than the former for travelers, and named them from the same
friends of his. To say all at once, there was not any place of his
kingdom fit for the purpose that was permitted to be without somewhat
that was for Caesar's honor; and when he had filled his own country with
temples, he poured out the like plentiful marks of his esteem into his
province, and built many cities which he called Cesareas.

5. And when he observed that there was a city by the sea-side that was
much decayed, [its name was Strato's Tower,] but that the place, by the
happiness of its situation, was capable of great improvements from his
liberality, he rebuilt it all with white stone, and adorned it with
several most splendid palaces, wherein he especially demonstrated his
magnanimity; for the case was this, that all the sea-shore between Dora
and Joppa, in the middle, be