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Often appears with: strabo on alexander · religious persecution and toleration · pharisees · monarchy and royal succession · jewish monarchy · forms of government
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · detachment (1)
A commentary contrasts the end of John Hyrcanus’s priestly theocracy with the rise of Asamonean kings and then Herod, using Strabo’s account that Alexander became king instead of priest.
relating to Judea, that can be compared to these accounts of Josephus, though when we do meet with authentic fragments of such original records, they almost always confirm his history.] 34 (return) [ This city, or island, Cos, is not that remote island in the Aegean Sea, famous for the birth of the great Hippocrates, but a city or island of the same name adjoining to Egypt, mentioned both by Stephanus and Ptolemy, a…