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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 3, chapter 113 (search)
Enough of marvels, and yet the land of Arabia gives off a scent as sweet as if divine. They have besides two marvellous kinds of sheep, found nowhere else. One of these has tails no less than nine feet long. Were the sheep to trail these after them they would suffer by the chafing of the tails on the ground;
but every shepherd there knows enough of carpentry to make little carts which they fix under the tails, binding the tail of each sheep on its own cart. The other kind of sheep has a tail a full three feet broad.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 4, chapter 39 (search)
This is the first peninsula. But the second, beginning with Persia, stretches to the Red Sea, and is Persian land; and next, the neighboring land of Assyria; and after Assyria, Arabia; this peninsula ends (not truly but only by common consent) at the Arabian Gulf, to which Darius brought a canal from the Nile.
Now from the Persian country to Phoenicia there is a wide and vast tract of land; and from Phoenicia this peninsula runs beside our sea by way of the Syrian Palestine and Egypt, which is at the end of it; in this peninsula there are just three nations.
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book 1, section 202 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book 1, section 238 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book 2, section 210 (search)
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 88 (search)
But when he had made slaves of the citizens of all these cities,
the nation of the Jews made an insurrection against him at a festival;
for at those feasts seditions are generally begun; and it looked as if
he should not be able to escape the plot they had laid for him, had not
his foreign auxiliaries, the Pisidians and Cilicians, assisted him; for
as to the Syrians, he never admitted them among his mercenary troops, on
account of their innate enmity against the Jewish nation. And when he had
slain more than six thousand of the rebels, he made an incursion into Arabia;
and when he had taken that country, together with the Gileadires and Moabites,
he enjoined them to pay him tribute, and returned to Areathus; and as Theodorus
was surprised at his great success, he took the fortress, and demolished
it.
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 123 (search)
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 159 (search)
IN the mean time, Scaurus made an expedition into Arabia, but was
stopped by the difficulty of the places about Petra. However, he laid waste
the country about Pella, though even there he was under great hardship;
for his army was afflicted with fami lso Scaurus sent to Aretas, as one well acquainted
with him, to induce him to pay him money to buy his peace. The king of
Arabia complied with the proposal, and gave him three hundred talents;
upon which Scaurus drew his army out of Arabia Take the lArabia Take the like attestation to the truth of this submission of Aretas, king
of Arabia, to Scaurus the Roman general, in the words of Dean Aldrich.
"Hence (says he) is derived that old and famous Denarius belonging
to the Emillian family [represented in HavercampArabia, to Scaurus the Roman general, in the words of Dean Aldrich.
"Hence (says he) is derived that old and famous Denarius belonging
to the Emillian family [represented in Havercamp's edition], wherein Aretas
appears in a posture of supplication, and taking hold of a camel's bridle
with his left hand, and with his right hand presenting a branch of the
frankincense tree, with this inscription, M. SCAURUS EX S.C.; and beneath,
RE
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 160 (search)
But as for Alexander, that son of Aristobulus who ran away from Pompey,
in some time he got a considerable band of men together, and lay heavy
upon Hyrcanus, and overran Judea, and was likely to overturn him quickly;
and indeed he had come to Jerusalem, and had ventured to rebuild its wall
that was thrown down by Pompey, had not Gabinius, who was sent as successor
to Scaurus into Syria, showed his bravery, as in many other points, so
in making an expedition against Alexander; who, as he was afraid that he
would attack him, so he got together a large army, composed of ten thousand
armed footmen, and fifteen hundred horsemen. He also built walls about
proper places; Alexandrium, and Hyrcanium, and Machorus, that lay upon
the mountains of Arabia.
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book I, section 180 (search)