Book 16
2.11
The tract called Parapotamia, belonging to the Arab chiefs, and Chalcidica, extending from the Massyas, border upon the district of Apameia on the east; and nearly all the country further to the south of Apameia belongs to the Scenitae, who resemble the Nomades of Mesopotamia. In proportion as the nations approach the Syrians they become more civilized, while the Arabians and Scenitae are less so. Their governments are better constituted [as that of Arethusa under Sampsiceramus, that of Themella under Gambarus, and other states of this kind].The text is here corrupt, and the passage, according to Kramer, probably introduced into the text from a marginal note.
2.12
Such is the nature of the interior parts of the district of Seleuceia.
2.12
The remainder of the navigation along the coast from Laodiceia is such as I shall now describe.
