And Jair died, and was buried in Camon. A city of Gilead, as Josephus u calls it; Jerom w, under this word Camon, makes mention of a village in his times, called Cimana, in the large plain six miles from Legion to the north, as you go to Ptolemais; but, as Reland x observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius y speaks of among other cities of Peraea, taken by Antiochus.
u Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 6. w De loc. Heb. fol. 90. B. x Palestina Illustr. tom. 2. p. 679. y Hist. l. 5.