50. Famosi nominis latro, says Ammianus - a high encomium
for an Arab. The tribe of Gassan had settled on the edge of
Syria, and reigned some time in Damascus, under a dynasty of
thirty-one kings or emirs, from the time of Pompey to that
of the Khalif Omar. D'Herbelot, Bibliotheque Orientale, p.
360. Pococke, Specimen Hist. Arabicaae, p. 75-78. The name
of Rodosaces does not appear in the list.