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(Amm. Marc. 14,8,9; Plin. HN 5,19,81 Hemeseni), city in Syria on the Orontes, today's Ḥimṣ (< Byzantine Χέμψ; Chémps). According to archaeological evidence it had been settled from the 3rd millennium BC but E. has been known to us only from Pompey's time as the seat of a clan of Arab ‘kings’, who were Roman vassals from the time of Herodes Agrippa I (Jos. Ant. Iud. 18,5,4; 19,8,1; Aristobulus [5]) and M. Iulius Agrippa II…