ZOARA(Ζοάρα, Steph. B. s. v.), a small town at the southern end of the Lacus Asphaltites in Judaea, to which Lot escaped from the burning of Sodom. ( Gen. 14.2, 8, 19.22.) Josephus, in describing the same lake, states that it extends μέχρι Ζοάρων Ἀραβίας (4.100.27). During the latter times of the Roman Empire, there was a guard maintained in that part of the country, a corps of native mounted bowmen ( Equites sagittarii Indigenae Zoarae), who were under the command of the Dux Palaestinae. ( Notit. Imper. )
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