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(Simeon of Durham, Sect. 149.) Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 206. A place in Middle sex, on the River Thames. Gades (Cales, Gadier). 3. P. R. 4. 77; (Chronicle 879.) Samson 716; Eikonocl. (9) (See also Hercules’ Pillars, Tarsus, Tarte us.) 400. Cadiz is a very ancient city built on an island on the southern coast of Spain, west of Gibraltar. Gades is the Latin, and Gadier the Greek form of the name. ” Cales” is common in English books of the time of Milton. Dionysius Periegetes writes of it: “Verily in the midst of the western columns, on the utmost border Gadire appears to men, on a sea-girt isle, at the limits of Ocean. There live the race of the Phoenicians, venerating Hercules son of great Zeus. The island, by earlier men named Cotinusa, the inhabitants call Gadire.” (LI. 450-456.) Similarly, Cadiz ap- Its pears as the most western city of the world in P. E, 4. 77. name was sometimes applied to the Iberian Peninsula, of which it was the chief city, for in the time of August us it had more inhabitants than any other place in the Empire except Rome, and was of great commercial importance. (Strabo 3. 5. 3-10.) Though Cadiz does not appear in Scripture, it is fittingly introduced in Samson 716 because of its ancient commercial importance, its connection with the Phoenician merchants so often mentioned in the Bible, and its a ociation by scholars with Tarshish, which was sometimes identified with it. (Bochart, p. 193.) ch121.xhtml g 140