Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Syria” in book 1, section 288 of Flavius Josephus, Against Apion:
... left his wife
with child behind him, who lay concealed in certain caverns, and there
brought forth a son, whose name was Messene, and who, when he was grown
up to man's estate, pursued the Jews into Syria , being about two hundred
thousand, and then received his father Amenophis out of Ethiopia."
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