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, etc.).
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.)
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