(anc. geog.), a town of the Lower Galilee, distant 40 stadia from Gabara; a very strong place, situated on a rock, walled round, and encompassed on all hands with mountains, so as not to be seen but by those who came very near. It was with great difficulty taken by Vespasian, being defended by Josephus, who commanded in it; when taken, it was ordered to be razed.

Joubert (Lawrence), counsellor and physician to the king of France, chancellor and judge of the university of Montpellier, was born at Valence in Dauphiny in 1530. He became the disciple of Rondellet at Montpellier; and at his death succeeded to the regius professorship of that university, where he had given abundant proofs of his merit, and strengthened his reputation by the lectures he read in that capacity, as well as by the works he published. Henry III., who passionately wished to have children, sent for him to Paris, in hopes by his affluence to render his marriage fruitful; but he was disappointed, without any loss of repute to Joubert. Much offence was indeed taken at a piece he published under the title of Vulgar errors, in which he treated of virginity and generation more plainly than had ever before been done in the French language. But, though he had promised something more on the same subject, he was so piqued at the clamour raised against it, that the public saw no more, of six parts promised, than the first, and part of the second, though they were greatly called for. He died in 1582; and his son Isaac translated some of his Latin paradoxes into French.