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HISTORY OF CARIA. 71
About B.C. 129, the Romans added Caria to their
province of Asia; but Strabo seems to speak of the
Persea as still belonging to the Rhodians of Ms time."
In the re-arrangement of the provinces of the
Roman empire, which took place in the fourth
century A.D., Caria became a separate province, as
appears from the "Notitia," and also from a Latin
inscription found by me at Budrum.b
After the taking of Halicarnassus by Alexander
the Great, it never regained its greatness, though it
may be inferred from the two inscriptions cited ante,
p. 69, that some of the destruction caused by the
siege was repaired while it was in the possession
of the Ptolemies. Cicero, who accuses Verres of
having carried off some statues from this city,c
describes it as almost deserted in his own time, till
it was restored by his brother Quintus.a We learn
from Josephus/ that during the reign of Hyr-.
canus II., a decree, granting certain privileges to
the Jews, was made by the people of Halicarnassus.
In the reign of Tiberius they competed for the
honour of erecting a temple to that emperor, alleging
in support of their claim, that their city had stood
for 1,200 years without experiencing the shock
of an earthquake/
a Cic. pro Flacco, c. 27. Strabo, xiv. p. 651.
b Notit. Or. pp. 7 and 10, ed. Boecking, as quoted by Henzen,
Bullet. Inst. Arch. Bom. 1860, pp. 170-1, where this inscription
is published.
c Yerr. i. 19. a Epist. ad Quint. Frat. i. 1.
e Joseph. Hist. Jud. xiv. 10, § 23. f Tacit. Annal. iv. 55.
About B.C. 129, the Romans added Caria to their
province of Asia; but Strabo seems to speak of the
Persea as still belonging to the Rhodians of Ms time."
In the re-arrangement of the provinces of the
Roman empire, which took place in the fourth
century A.D., Caria became a separate province, as
appears from the "Notitia," and also from a Latin
inscription found by me at Budrum.b
After the taking of Halicarnassus by Alexander
the Great, it never regained its greatness, though it
may be inferred from the two inscriptions cited ante,
p. 69, that some of the destruction caused by the
siege was repaired while it was in the possession
of the Ptolemies. Cicero, who accuses Verres of
having carried off some statues from this city,c
describes it as almost deserted in his own time, till
it was restored by his brother Quintus.a We learn
from Josephus/ that during the reign of Hyr-.
canus II., a decree, granting certain privileges to
the Jews, was made by the people of Halicarnassus.
In the reign of Tiberius they competed for the
honour of erecting a temple to that emperor, alleging
in support of their claim, that their city had stood
for 1,200 years without experiencing the shock
of an earthquake/
a Cic. pro Flacco, c. 27. Strabo, xiv. p. 651.
b Notit. Or. pp. 7 and 10, ed. Boecking, as quoted by Henzen,
Bullet. Inst. Arch. Bom. 1860, pp. 170-1, where this inscription
is published.
c Yerr. i. 19. a Epist. ad Quint. Frat. i. 1.
e Joseph. Hist. Jud. xiv. 10, § 23. f Tacit. Annal. iv. 55.