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An editorial explanation says a “Thracida” name for Alexander meant something like Thracian/barbarous, but the precise meaning is unknown.
Against Him Besieged The City And Took It By Force; As Also What Other Things He Did In Judea. 1. Now when Pompey had pitched his camp at Jericho, [where the palm tree grows, and that balsam which is an ointment of all the most precious, which upon any incision made in the wood with a sharp stone, distills out thence like a juice,] 4 he marched in the morning to Jerusalem. Hereupon Aristobulus repented of what he wa…