Note 012 Laodicea furnished charioteers; Tyre and Berytus, comedians; Casarea, pantomimes, Heliopolis, singers; Gaza, gladiators; Ascalon, wrestlers; and Castabala, rope-dancers. See the Expositio totius Mundi, p. 6, in the third tome of Hudson's Minor Geographers.

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