the descendants of Ishmael. They were also called Ishmaelites and Saracens, and lastly by the general name of Arabians. As to the Hagarens, they dwelt in Arabia Felix, according to Pliny. Strabo joins them with the Nabatheans, and Chavrolacans, whose habitation was rather in Arabia Deserta. But others think that their capital was Petra, otherwise Agra, and consequently that they should be placed in Arabia Petraea. The author of the eighty-third psalm joins them with the Moabites; and in the Chronicles (1 Chron. v. 10), it is said that the sons of Reuben, in the time of Saul, made war against the Hagarens, and became masters of their country eastward of the mountains of Gilead. This therefore was the true and ancient country of the Hagarens. When Trajan entered Arabia, he besieged the capital of the Hagarens, but did not succeed in taking it. The sons of Hagar valued themselves of old upon their wisdom, as appears by Baruch.