Complex sentence: The Greek historian Polybius describes Gadara as being in 218 BC the'strongest of all places in the region'; nevertheless it capitulated shortly afterwards when besieged by the Seleucid king Antiochus III of Syria.
Split into simpler sentences: The Greek historian Polybius describes Gadara as being in 218 BC the'strongest of all places in the region'. Nevertheless it capitulated shortly afterwards when besieged by the Seleucid king Antiochus III of Syria.