GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Caesarea was Herod s city, founded as a Romanized

Caesarea was Herod’s city, founded as a Romanized counterweight to Hebraic Jerusalem, and being such it was regarded with loathing by the devout.

(A) being such
(B) as such
(C) for this
(D) so
(E) so being

I marked this correct based on more natural sounding. For this changes the meaning of the sentence, so I avoided this choice.

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