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PANEAS

Volume 8 · 88 words · 1778 Edition

(Pliny, Josephus); the apparent spring from which the Jordan rises, on the extremity of the west side of the Trachonitis, (Pliny).

Paneas, (Coins, Pliny, Josephus), the name of a district adjoining to the spring Paneas, with a cognominal town, either enlarged and adorned, or originally built, by Philip son of Herod, and called Caesarea, by Josephus; and in St Matthew, Caesarea of Philip; with a temple erected to Augustus his benefactor, who conferred the Trachonitis upon him, (coin). It was afterwards called Neronias, in honour of Nero, (Josephus).