[Footnote 7: After removing some rubbish of miracle and
inconsistency, it may be allowed, that as late as the year
300, Paneas in Palestine was decorated with a bronze statue,
representing a grave personage wrapped in a cloak, with a
grateful or suppliant female kneeling before him, and that
an inscription was perhaps inscribed on the pedestal. By
the Christians, this group was foolishly explained of their
founder and the poor woman whom he had cured of the bloody
flux, (Euseb. vii. 18, Philostorg. vii. 3, &c.) M. de
Beausobre more reasonably conjectures the philosopher
Apollonius, or the emperor Vespasian: in the latter
supposition, the female is a city, a province, or perhaps
the queen Berenice, (Bibliotheque Germanique, tom. xiii. p.
1 - 92.)]