de Bell.Persic.l.i.c.

19,) and the Romans maintained a centurion and a custom-house, (Arrian in Periplo Maris Erythraei, p.

11, in Hudson, tom.

i.,) at a place (Pagus Albus, Hawara) in the territory of Medina, (D'Anville, Memoire sur l'Egypte, p.
243.) These real possessions, and some naval inroads of Trajan, (Peripl.
p.

14, 15,) are magnified by history and medals into the Roman conquest of Arabia.