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in the consulship of Lamia and Serellianus, as the most wise Clement the chronographer set forth. But Augustus Caesar Octavian in the 55th year of his reign, in the month of October, which is also Hyperberetaios, went to the oracle; and having made a hecatomb sacrifice, he asked, "Who after me will rule the Roman state?" and no answer was given to him from the Pythia. and again he made another sacrifice, and asked the Pythia why no answer was given to him, but the oracle is silent. And these things were spoken to him from the Pythia. A Hebrew boy, a god who rules over the blessed, commands me to leave this house and go again to Hades. 232 And so, depart from our halls. And Augustus Caesar, having gone out from the oracle, and having come to the Capitol, built there a great, high altar, on which he inscribed in Roman letters, "This is the altar of the first-born god;" which altar is on the Capitol until the present day, as Timothy the wise wrote. And the same Caesar Octavian, having been struck by a disease, died in Rome, being an old man of 75 years, childless and having become chaste from bodily sin. for he was a mystical high priest and king. And after the reign of Augustus Caesar, in the consulship of Sextus and Secticianus, Tiberius Caesar reigned for 22 years. And he was of two parts, old, of slender build, with fine eyes, dark-skinned, short-haired, with curly hair, somewhat snub-nosed, a lover of building. He marched against the Persians, and without fighting, but being entreated by them, he made a pact of peace. And while going up to Rome, he came to Antioch the Great, and built outside the city two great porticoes near the mountain called Silpius, having a length of 4 miles, roofed and most magnificent. and having built tetrapylons along the street with coverings, having beautifully adorned them with mosaic and marbles, and having decorated the main street with works of bronze and statues, and having walled the same porticoes and having enclosed the mountain from within, 233 he joined the new wall by this same wall to the old wall of the city which had been built by Seleucus, enclosing by his own wall both the acropolis and Iopolis. And for the same Tiberius Caesar, the council and the people of the Antiochenes erected a bronze pillar above a great Theban column in the main street in the middle of the porticoes built by him. which place is called the Eye of the City, also having a shape of a navel carved in stone. which pillar stands until the present day. And the same Tiberius Caesar, having learned that Seleucus the king, fearing the flows of water coming down from the mountain in winter and forming pools, avoided the mountain and built the city on the plain, and he placed at his pillar a stone coffer, in which he made a talisman through Ablakkon, an initiator and priest, because of the flows of the Parmenius torrent-river and of the streams coming down from the mountain so that that same part of the city would not be harmed or the two great porticoes built by him be destroyed; which stone coffer the Antiochene citizens say is the purchase price of their city, because he redeemed that part of the city through the security of the wall built by him from the invasion and capture by the barbarian Saracens and Persians. for formerly it was inhabited without a wall, 234 the part of the city near the mountain, built by Antiochus the most illustrious king; because he also built the council-house and other temples. and likewise also Antiochus the king, again the one called Philadelphus, built many things outside the city; he also built in Daphne in the grove two temples, of Apollo and Artemis, setting up in them two golden statues, having granted privileges to those who take refuge there so that no one may be expelled from the same temples. and these things they built, when the Macedonian kingdoms existed. But Tiberius Caesar built in the same

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ἐν ὑπατείᾳ Λαμία καὶ Σερελλιανοῦ, καθὼς ὁ σοφώτατος Κλήμης ὁ χρονογράφος ἐξέθετο. Ὁ δὲ Αὔγουστος Καῖσαρ Ὀκταβιανὸς τῷ νεʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ μηνὶ ὀκτωβρίῳ τῷ καὶ ὑπερβερεταίῳ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μαντεῖον· καὶ ποιήσας ἑκατόμβην θυσίαν ἐπηρώτησε, Τίς μετ' ἐμὲ βασιλεύσει τῆς Ῥωμαϊκῆς πολιτείας; καὶ οὐκ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἀπόκρισις ἐκ τῆς Πυθίας. καὶ πάλιν ἐποίησεν ἄλλην θυσίαν, καὶ ἐπηρώτησε τὴν Πυθίαν τὸ διὰ τί οὐκ ἐδόθη αὐτῷ ἀπόκρισις, ἀλλὰ σιγᾷ τὸ μαντεῖον. καὶ ἐῤῥέθη αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῆς Πυθίας ταῦτα. Παῖς Ἑβραῖος κέλεταί με θεὸς μακάρεσσιν ἀνάσσων τόνδε δόμον προλιπεῖν καὶ ἄϊδος αὖθις ἱκέσθαι. 232 καὶ λοιπὸν ἄπιθι ἐκ πρόμων ἡμετέρων. Καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τοῦ μαντείου ὁ Αὔγουστος Καῖσαρ, καὶ ἐλθὼν εἰς τὸ Καπετώλιον, ἔκτισεν ἐκεῖ βωμὸν μέγαν, ὑψηλόν, ἐν ᾧ ἐπέγραψε Ῥωμαϊκοῖς γράμμασιν, Ὁ βωμὸς οὗτός ἐστι τοῦ πρωτογόνου θεοῦ· ὅστις βωμός ἐστιν εἰς τὸ Καπετώλιον ἕως τῆς νῦν, καθὼς Τιμόθεος ὁ σοφὸς συνεγράψατο. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Καῖσαρ Ὀκταβιανὸς νόσῳ βληθεὶς ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἐτελεύτησε, γέρων ὢν ἐτῶν οεʹ, ἄπαις καὶ σωφρονήσας ἀπὸ σωματικῆς ἁμαρτίας. ἦν γὰρ μυστικὸς ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ βασιλεύς. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν βασιλείαν Αὐγούστου Καίσαρος ἐπὶ ὑπατείας Σέξτου καὶ Σεκτικιανοῦ ἐβασίλευσε Τιβέριος Καῖσαρ ἔτη κβʹ. ἦν δὲ διμοιριαῖος, γέρων, λεπτακινός, εὐόφθαλμος, μελάγχροος, κονδόθριξ, οὖλος, ὑπόσιμος, φιλοκτίστης. ὅστις ἐπεστράτευσε κατὰ Περσῶν, καὶ μὴ πολεμήσας, ἀλλὰ παρακληθεὶς παρ' αὐτῶν πάκτα εἰρήνης ἐποίησε. Καὶ ἀνιὼν ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥώμην ἦλθεν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ, καὶ ἔκτισεν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως ἐμβόλους δύο μεγάλους πρὸς τῷ ὄρει τῷ λεγομένῳ Σιλπίῳ, ἔχοντας διαστήματα μιλίων δʹ, ὑπορόφους καὶ πανευπρεπεῖς. καὶ κατὰ ῥύμην κτίσας τετράπυλα διὰ εἰλημάτων, φιλοκαλήσας αὐτὰ μουσώσει καὶ μαρμάροις, καὶ τὴν πλατεῖαν δὲ χαλκουργήμασι καὶ ἀγάλμασι κοσμήσας καὶ τειχίσας τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐμβόλους καὶ τὸ ὄρος ἀποκλείσας ἔσωθεν, 233 προσεκόλλησε τῷ αὐτῷ τείχει τὸ νέον τῷ παλαιῷ τείχει τῆς πόλεως τῷ ὑπὸ Σελεύκου γενομένῳ, ἀποκλείσας διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου αὐτοῦ τείχους καὶ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν καὶ τὴν Ἰώπολιν. Καὶ ἀνέστησε τῷ αὐτῷ Τιβερίῳ Καίσαρι ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος τῶν Ἀντιοχέων στήλην χαλκῆν ὑπεράνω μεγάλου κίονος Θηβαίου ἐν τῇ πλατείᾳ κατὰ τὸ μέσον τῶν ἐμβόλων τῶν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κτισθέντων. ὅστις τόπος κέκληται ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς τῆς πόλεως, ἔχων καὶ τύπον ἐγγεγλυμμένον ἐν λίθῳ ὀμφαλοῦ. ἥτις στήλη ἵσταται ἕως τῆς νῦν. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Τιβέριος Καῖσαρ μαθὼν ὅτι ὁ Σέλευκος ὁ βασιλεὺς φοβηθεὶς τὰς ῥύσεις τῶν ὑδάτων κατιόντων ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους χειμῶνος καὶ λιμναζόντων, ἀποφυγὼν τὸ ὄρος ἐν τῇ πεδιάδι τὴν πόλιν ἔκτισε, καὶ ἔθηκε τῇ αὑτοῦ στήλῃ κιβώτιον λίθινον, ἐν ᾧ ἐποίησε τέλεσμα δι' Ἀβλάκκωνος, τελεστοῦ καὶ ἱερέως, διὰ τὰς ῥύσεις τοῦ Παρμενίου χειμάῤῥου ποταμοῦ καὶ τῶν κατερχομένων ῥυάκων ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους πρὸς τὸ μὴ βλάπτεσθαι τὸ αὐτὸ μέρος τῆς πόλεως ἢ πορθεῖσθαι τοὺς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κτισθέντας δύο ἐμβόλους μεγάλους· ὅπερ κιβώτιον λίθινον λέγουσιν εἶναι οἱ Ἀντιοχεῖς πολῖται τὰ ὠνεωκὰ τῆς πόλεως αὐτῶν, διότι ἐξηγόρακε τὸ μέρος αὐτὸ τῆς πόλεως διὰ τῆς ἀσφαλείας τοῦ κτισθέντος παρ' αὐτοῦ τείχους ἐκ τῆς τῶν βαρβάρων Σαρακηνῶν καὶ Περσῶν ἐπιδρομῆς καὶ ἁλώσεως. ᾠκεῖτο γὰρ δίχα τείχους πρῴην 234 τὸ παρὰ τὸ ὄρος μέρος τῆς πόλεως, κτισθὲν ὑπὸ Ἀντιόχου τοῦ ἐπιφανεστάτου βασιλέως· ὅτι καὶ τὸ βουλευτήριον ἔκτισε καὶ ἄλλα ἱερά. ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ Ἀντίοχος ὁ βασιλεὺς πάλιν ὁ λεγόμενος Φιλάδελφος ἔκτισεν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως πολλά· ὅστις καὶ ἐν ∆άφνῃ ἔκτισεν ἐν τῷ ἄλσει ἱερὰ δύο, Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος, στήσας ἐν αὐτοῖς ἀγάλματα δύο χρυσᾶ, παρασχὼν προνόμια τοῖς καταφεύγουσιν ἐκεῖ πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἐκβάλλεσθαί τινα ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν ἱερῶν. ταῦτα δὲ ἔκτισαν, ὅτε τὰ Μακεδονικὰ βασίλεια ὑπῆρχεν. Ὁ δὲ Τιβέριος Καῖσαρ ἔκτισεν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ