Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Thronium, Tiberias

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Tiberias

（Τιβεριάς).

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A city of Galilee, on the southwestern shore of the Lake of Tiberias, and built by Herod Antipas in honour of the emperor Tibèrius.

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Or Gennesăret, also the Sea of Galilee, in the Old Test. Chinnereth, now Bahr Tubariyeh, the second of the three lakes in Palestine formed by the course of the Jordan. (See Iordanes.) Its length is eleven or twelve geographical miles, and its breadth from five to six. It lies deep among fertile hills, has very clear and sweet water, and is full of excellent fish.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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