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SYRIA WOHAH
overthrow Syria triumphed in the first instance, and
continued for a century to be the sear of the caliphate
under the Ommayyads. Then the East obtained the
upper hand once more. and the Abbasidr took up their
residence in old Babylonia, in BaghdBd. The Orient
had its last period of prosperity, which came to an end
in the overthrow of Baghdsd by the Mongols, by which
time Syria as well as Mesopotamia had already for Long
displayed the old tendency to break uo into detached
kingdbrns or rultanater. .
o.c.~..§5r-5~,6,7: A.E.s..§~~: H.W..§§~-Z~.
SYRIA-IdAACHAE, RV ARAM-MAACAH (I Ch.
196). See AXAM,
5 5, and SYRIA, 5 I, MAACAH.
SYBIAN LANGiUAGiE (2 K.1826 Is.36r1; also
Ezra47 Dan. 2+). See ARAMAIC.
SYROPBCENICIAN (Mk. 7m6). See SYRIA. § 5.
and compare GOSPELS, coi. 1842 n. 2.
The danger was attributed not so much to the
TABEEL
shallowness of the water and the treacherous bottow, as
to the sudden and unaccountable action of the tides and
consequent variations in the position of the banks
(Pomp. Mela, 11 ; imgortuorus nfgue a m d ob vndorum
, freouenfium ' bm'a. moa'roue cham '76 alternos rnotur
0 .
palogi a$amfir ac rrpuenfir infertur. Cp Str. 836 :
Apoll. Rhod. I.c.). It was from this action of the tides
that the name Syrtir was derived (Sallurt, B. lug. 78 :
nomen cx re inditlrm . . . Syrfe~ ob frocfu nominate.
From the Greek dpw, ' to- draw '). Nevertheless,
masters with local experience found little difficulty in
running along the coast (Str 836). It is probable that
the dangers of the ta.0 bays were exaggerated in rhc
minds 01 those unfamiliar with the coast; exaggerated
aCcOuntS were also given of the inhospitable character
of the mainland, which war represented as a desert of
rand full of dangers (Diod. Sic. 2042 : Sallust, og.