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ANTILIBANUS

Volume 2 · 74 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Coelosyria, which bounds it on the south, running parallel with Libanus: they both begin a little above the sea, Libanus near Tripolis, Antilibanus at Sidon: and both terminate near the mountains of Arabia, which run to the north of Damascus, and the mountains of Traconitis, and there end in other mountains, (Strabo). The Scripture, making no distinction between Libanus and Antilibanus, calls them by the common name Lebanon.