Antipatris
Antipatris - a city built by
Herod the Great, and called by this name in
honour of his father, Antipater II of Judea. It lay between
Caesarea and
Lydda, two miles inland, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to
Jerusalem. To this place
Paul was brought by night (Acts 23:31) on his way to Caesarea, from which it was distant 28
miles. It is identified with the modern, Ras-el-Ain, where rise the springs of Aujeh, the largest springs in
Palestine.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)