Note 129 — Chapter X · SYRIA AND THE LAND OF THE NABATAEANS.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
The space between Antioch and Daphne was filled with country-houses and villas (Libanius, pro rhetor. ii. p. 213 Reiske), and there was also here a suburb Heraclea or else Daphne (O. Müller, Antiq. Antioch, p. 44; comp. vita Veri, 7); but when Tacitus, Ann. ii. 83, names this suburb Epidaphne, this is one of his most singular blunders. Plinius, H. N. v. 27, 79, says correctly: Antiochia Epidaphnes cognominata.