Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 15.1.8
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is directly attested at Isidore of Seville, Etymologies 15.1.8. This passage was written ca. 610-636 CE possibly in Seville. Isidore, born to an aristocratic family in Cartagena, was an influential scholar and archbishop of Seville at the dawn of the Middle Ages. Beyond his bold ecclesiastical leadership in the old Roman province and his program to integrate the Spanish Kingdom of the Arian Visigoths, he wrote an encyclopedia in 20 volumes. Isidore compiled knowledge in all fields based on research across an extensive range of classical writings, which he often quoted or paraphrased. In this passage from the book on buildings and fields (de aedificiis et agris), Isidore discusses the refounding of Strato’s Tower as Caesarea.

Dor urbs fuit quondam potentissima; et versa vice Stratonis turris, postea ab Herode, rege Iudaeae, in honorem Caesaris Augusti Caesarea nuncupata. In qua Corneli domum Christi vidit Ecclesia, et Philippi aediculas, et cubiculum quattuor virginum prophetarum.

[Ed. Lindsay 1911]

The city of Dor was once very powerful; it was opposite Strato’s Tower, which was later named Caesarea by Herod, king of Judaea, in honor of Caesar Augustus. There the Church of Christ saw the home of Cornelius, the house of Philip, and the room of the four virgin prophets. [Trans. J. L. Rife]

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[Acts 10

Acts 21:8]

[Cartagena

Dor

Hispala (Seville)

Spain]

[Augustus, emperor

Cornelius, early Christian at Caesarea

Herod I, king

Jesus Christ

Philip, early Christian at Caesarea]

[Christian Bible

Christianity

Geography

Herodian Dynasty

Medieval History

Roman History

Urban Topography]