CHAP. XIII. Gaza. (Book 13)
AFTER very many histories of this place in the Holy Bible, which there is no need to repeat here, a 1.1 in this City did Alexander the Great at length besiege Baba∣mesis the Persian by the space of two months. b 1.2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. And that City, which before time was most famous, was laid wast by him, and rendred desert. Not that he had destroyed the building of the City, or con∣sumed it with fire (for presently after his death, Antigonus and Ptolomy its Captains sighting, c 1.3 it had walls, gates and fortifications) but that he devested it of its antient glory, so that it was at last melted into a new City of that name built nearer the Sea, where formerly had been 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Haven of the Gazaeans. That is called by Dio∣clorus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, old Gaza, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Gaza desert, by Strabo, and the New Testa∣ment, Act. VIII. 26. At last it was called New Maijuma, and after that Constantia. Con∣cerning which see Eusebius of the life of Constantine, Book IV. Chap. XXVIII. and Sozo∣men his Ecclesiastical History, Book V. Chap. III.