in Ancient Geography, a town of Galilee, (Ptolemy) of the Peraea, (Josephus;) which being walled round by Herod Antipas, was called Julia, after Julia; the daughter of Augustus, and consort of Tiberius: it flood to the north of the lake of Genesareth, at the influx of the Jordan into that lake; and here Dr Wells places Bethsaida.