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Yet did he not preserve their memory by particular buildings only,
with their names given them, but his generosity went as far as entire cities;
for when he had built a most beautiful wall round a country in Samaria,
twenty furlongs long, and had brought six thousand inhabitants into it,
and had allotted to it a most fruitful piece of land, and in the midst
of this city, thus built, had erected a very large temple to Caesar, and
had laid round about it a portion of sacred land of three furlongs and
a half, he called the city Sebaste, from Sebastus, or Augustus, and settled
the affairs of the city after a most regular manner.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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