<Li> 139: A Roman military diploma from Afiq names military units "in Syria Palaestin (a)". </Li> <Li> c. 130: Pausanias (geographer), Description of Greece: (1) "Hard by is a sanctuary of the Heavenly Aphrodite; the first men to establish her cult were the Assyrians, after the Assyrians the Paphians of Cyprus and the Phoenicians who live at Ascalon in Palestine; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera ."; (2) "In front of the sanctuary grow palm - trees, the fruit of which, though not wholly edible like the dates of Palestine, yet are riper than those of Ionia ."; and (3) "(a Hebrew Sibyl) brought up in Palestine named Sabbe, whose father was Berosus and her mother Erymanthe . Some say she was a Babylonian, while others call her an Egyptian Sibyl ." </Li> <Li> c. 150: Aelius Aristides, To Plato: In Defense of the Four: (671) These men alone should be classed neither among flatterers nor free men . For they deceive like flatterers, but they are insolent as if they were of higher rank, since they are involved in the two most extreme and opposite evils, baseness and willfulness, behaving like those impious men of Palestine . For the proof of the impiety of those people is that they do not believe in the higher powers . And these men in a certain fashion have defected from the Greek race, or rather from all that is higher . </Li> <Li> c. 150: Appian, Roman History: "Intending to write the history of the Romans, I have deemed it necessary to begin with the boundaries of the nations under their sway...Here turning our course and passing round, we take in Palestine - Syria, and beyond it a part of Arabia . The Phoenicians hold the country next to Palestine on the sea, and beyond the Phoenician territory are Coele - Syria, and the parts stretching from the sea as far inland as the river Euphrates, namely Palmyra and the sandy country round about, extending even to the Euphrates itself" </Li>

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