ACICHORIUS the Gaul invades Pan- nonia 50.
Ace and Acon, Ptolemais so called 118.
Achean commonwealth, what it was 364.
Acheus, his good services to Seleu- cus Ceraunus 136, refuses the kingdom of Syria 137, recovers part of it ib. usurps it 145, be- sieged in Sardis 162, betrayed and delivered to Antiochus ib. behead- ed 163.
Adamantias, why Origen so called 90. Era of the Seleucida and the Julian,
how they differ 251, 292, 300. Etolians invite Antiochus the Great to make war on the Romans in Greece 186, 187. Agathoclea, her wickedness 147, plunders Ptolemy's treasury at his death 168, killed ib. Agathocles, her brother, his treason 169, killed ib. Agathocles, governour of Parthia for Antiochus, occasions the loss of the province by sodomy 113. Agathocles, son of Lysimachus, his actions against Demetrius 26, 27, murdered by means of his aunt and stepmother, Arsinoe 45. Aldus, his edition of the Septuagint
Alexander made governour of Persia by Antiochus the Great 138, re- bels, and slays himself 143. Alexandria, Jews very numerous there 76, trade of the East brought thither 108, inhabited by three sorts of people 156.
Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint, by whom written 95, its antiquity ib. Alexandrians, their skill in astrono-
my 317, leave their city 390. Ammianus Marcellinus corrected 32. Ammonius, minister to the impostor Balas of Syria 358, his cruelty ib. plots against the king of Egypt 362, slain ib.
Anacleteria of Ptolemy, what it was 182.
Andreas solicits Ptolemy for the Jews 55.
Andriscus, an impostor, pretends to the kingdom of Macedon 351. Andronicus, governour of Antioch, puts Onias the high priest to death 224, punished for it ib. Antigonus of Socho chosen president of the sanhedrim 21, his learning ib. death 104, character ib. Antigonus Gonatas, son of Demetrius king of Macedon, routs the Gauls 53, marries the daughter of Seleu- cus, and has peaceable possession of the kingdom 99, besieges A- thens 101, drives Cleomenes out of Sparta 140.
Antiochus Soter, son of Seleucus, how he got his father's wife Stra- tonice 29, succeeds him 48, 49, wars for the kingdom of Mace- don 99, yields it to Antigonus ib. beats the Gauls and is thence cal- led Soter ib. defeated by Eumenes 106, his death ib.
Antiochus Theus succeeds his father
Soter 106, marries his sister Lao- dice ib. his war with Ptolemy Phi- ladelphus 112, loses his eastern provinces 113, divorces Laodice, and marries Ptolemy's daughter Berenice 114, turns off Berenice and retakes Laodice 119, poison- ed ib.
Antiochus Hierax, why so called 124, routs his brother Seleucus 125, his misfortunes and death 127, 128 Antiochus the Great ascends the Sy- rian throne 138, wars with Ptole- my Philopater 141, reduces the eastern rebels 142, loses the battle at Raphia 152, reduces Acheus 162, his Parthian war 164, his march into India 168, his league against the young king Ptolemy Epiphanes 171, takes Šidon 174, is at Jerusalem ib his decree in favour of the Jews ib. his successes in Asia Minor 178, gives audience to the Roman ambassadors in Thrace 179. flies into a passion 180, suffers by a storm ib. Han- nibal with him 182 engaged by him in a war with the Romans 183, makes alliances with him 184, his mourning for his son Antiochus
185, begins the war with the Ro- mans rashly 187, marries an or- dinary woman in his old age 189, driven into Asia ib. his fleet beaten 191, sues in vain for a peace with the Romans 192, routed by them 193, pays a prodigious sum for a peace 194, a saying of his on the loss of his provinces to them 196, robs the temple of Jupiter Belus, and is murdered ib. Daniel's pro- phecies of him fulfilled 197-200. Antiochus Epiphanes his son an hos- tage at Rome 195, obtains the crown 212, his extravagancies 213, and madness ib. nicknamed Epima- nes 214, treated at Jerusalem 220, routs the Egyptians 227, puts the Jewish ambassadors to death ib. his victories in Egypt ib. his cruel- ty and profaneness at Jerusalem 230,231, his immense booty ib. in- vades Egypt again 233, 234, gives audience to ambassadors in favour of Ptolemy 234, his severe decree against the Jews 239, his folly at Daphne 257, his death and wicked character 271, Daniel's prophecies concerning him fulfilled 276, suc- Iceeded by his son 285. Antiochus Eupator, his breach of faith to the Jews 299, put to death by his brother Demetrius 305. Antiochus Theos, son of Balas, ex- pels Demetrius, king of Syria 370, kind to Jonathan ib. murdered by his minister Tryphon 375. Antiochus Sidetes, brother of De- metrius, marries his wife 383, kills the usurper Tryphon, and obtains the kingdom of Syria 384, wars with Simon 386, over-runs Pales- tine 397, compels Hyrcanus to sue for peace 398, his benignity saves the Jews from destruction 399, sends presents to Scipio in Spain 401, his expedition against the Par- thians 404, killed 405. Antiochus Grypus made king of Syria by his mother 421, educated at A- thens ib. forces his mother to drink the poison she had prepared for him 423, his arguments with his wife not to murder her sister 426, forc- ed to fly 427.
Antiochus Cyzicenus, Grypus his de- sign against him 425, marries Cleo- patra, sister and wife to Lathyrus king of Egypt ib. routs Grypus and revenges the death of his wife 427, routed by the Jews 428. Antiochis, daughter of Antiochus the
Great, imposes two suppositious princes on the Cappadocians 340. Antonia, castle of, at Jerusalem de- scribed 438, called Baris at first 439, what use it was put to 440, the pontifical robes kept there ib. Apame, her scandalous love for De- metrius, son of Poliorcetes 111, the occasion of a war between Antio- chus Theos and Ptolemy Philadel. phus ib.
Apostates, how hated and used by the Jews 158, 159. Apollonius Rhodius, library-keeper at Alexandria 184. Apollophanes, Antiochus' physician, his advice at a council of war 146. Apollonius, lieutenant to Antiochus Epiphanes,destroys Jerusalem 239, routed and slain 258, several persons of that name distinguished 359. Aquila undertakes a translation of the Bible in opposition to the Septua- gint 81, his method in it 84. Aratus the poet, favoured by Ptole. my 117.
Aratus expels Nicocles, tyrant of Si-
cyone 112, generously assisted by Ptolemy Philadelphus, and why ib. Archias, his avarice 346, the occa- sion of his death 346, 347. Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia, op. posed by an impostor 340, refuses the king of Syria's sister in mar- riage 341.
Aristeas, his account of the Septua- gint confuted 54. Aristobulus, his account of the trans- lation of the Septuagint 57, confut- ed 68, his commentaries on Moses suspected 68, 69.
Aristonicus, his war with the Romans for the kingdom of Pergamus 402. Aristotle instructed by a learned Jew 70, studied by the Christian school- men from an ill translation 392. Arsaces occasions the revolt of Par- thia from Antiochus 113, founds that kingdom, and enlarges it 126, settles 129, gives his name to his successors 130.
Arsaces his son, leagues with Anti- ochus the Great 165, his succes- sors 381. Arsinoe, wife of Lysimachus, con- trives the death of his son Agath- ocles 45, banished 47, marries her brother Ptolemy Philadelphus 48, beloved by him ib. her death 116. Arsinoe, wife of Ptolemy, and daugh- ter of Lysimachus, divorced by him and banished 48.
Arsinoe, wife and sister to Ptolemy Philopater, her courage 152, put to death 166.
Artemon personates Antiochus The- us 119.
Arundel, earl of, a column concern- ing Seleucus king of Syria, brought by him out of Italy 124. Asia Proper, and the Less, distin- guished 402.
Asideans, who they were that joined Mattathias 248, 249. Asmonean race, when they became possessed of the high priesthood 350, of the first class of the sons of Aaron 351.
Astacus, Nicomedia built on its ru- ins 105.
Athens besieged by Antigonus king of Macedon 100. Atropatians, now the Georgians, sub- mit to Antiochus 143. Attalus, king of Pergamus, succeeds Eumenes 126, curtails the Syrian empire 137, his league with the Romans, and death 177, how it happened ib.
Attalus, brother of Eumenes king of Pergamus, made king by him 341, resigns to his nephew ib. Attalus Philometor succeeds his un- cle Attalus 388, his vices and folly ib. 401, dies, and leaves his goods to the Romans by will 402. Azarias, one of Judas Maccabæus' commanders, his ill conduct 290. Azotus taken by John son of Simon 387.
Bacchides sent by the king of Syria against Judas Maccabæus 334, kills him 335, his cruelty ib. worsted by Jonathan 337, quits Palestine ib. returns and makes peace with the Jews 343.
Bactria revolts from Antiochus 113, the largeness of the province ib. Balas, called also Alexander, an im- postor, pretends to the kingdom of Syria 347, the Romans declare for bim 348, makes Jonathan high priest 349, obtains the Syrian em- pire, and is kind to Jonathan 352, 353, marries the king of Egypt's daughter ib. his mal-administra. tion 358, the cruelty of his favour- ite ib. killed 362. Baris, castle of, at Jerusalem, built by Hyrcanus 437, the seat of the Asmonean princes 438, described ib.
Baronius abuses Eusebius 475.
Baruch, epistles of, not in the He- brew canon 62.
Bath Kol, a kind of prophecy, what it was 433, like the Sortes Virgi- lianæ 435.
Bede, an epistle penned by him 324. Belgius, the Gaul, invades Macedo- nia, and is defeated 50.
Ben Sira, a book among the Jews so called, thought to be Ecclesiasti- cus 404.
Bere taken by Pyrrhus 25. Berenice gets Ptolemy to make her son king, though he had an elder brother 30.
Berenice, city of, built by Ptolemy Philadelphus 109.
Berenice, daughter of Apame, gets her mother's gallant assassinated
Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy, mar- ried to Antiochus Theus 114, she is turned off 119, and flies 120, murdered ib.
Berenice, wife of Ptolemy Euergetes, her hair turned into a constellation 123.
Berhea, Aleppo so called anciently
Berosus, the historian, when he lived 107, an account of him ib. Bethsan in Palestine, called Scytho- polis 296.
Bias makes his city renowned for justice 344, Note.
Bible used by Christians in divina- tions 435, 436.
Bishop of the Jews, an officer in En.
gland so called 448, Note. Bishops, their temporal power distin- guished from the spiritual 222. Bishops in king William III's time justly deprived by the state 223, still so of the church universal ib. Bolis, the Cretan, his treachery 162. Brass, Corinthian, when first made 363.
Brennus, the Gaul, invades Macedo- nia, and is defeated 50, dies of despair and drunkenness 52, a say- ing of another Gaul of the same name to the Romans 194, Note. Byzantium seized by the Gauls 51.
Calippic cycle, what it was 312. Callimachus, his satire against his
disciple Apollonius, library-keep- er at Alexandria 184. Calisthenes burnt for burning the
temple gates at Jerusalem 264. Carthage destroyed 363. Cato, the Roman general, routs An-
tiochus the Great in Greece 189. Celsus well acquainted with the Scriptures 79. Cendebeus, general of the Syrians for Antiochus Sidetes, routed by the sons of Simon 387. Chares of Lindus, builds the colos- sus at Rhodes 138.
lem, made governour of Cyprus by Antiochus Epiphanes 228. Cretans, their bad character 162. Cycle, how it differs from a period
311, of nineteen years the best 318. Cycle of eighty-four years, when be. gun by the Jews 310, how made up 311, wholly abolished 325.
Chasidim, or Asidæans, who the peo- Cycles treated of 310. ple so called 249.
Christ honours the feast of dedica- tion appointed by Judas Macca- bæus with his presence 268. Christian churches make use of dif-
ferent translations of the Bible 92. Christians, names given them by the Jews 408, 409.
Chronicon Alexandrinum preferred in some things to Eusebius 225, why so called ib.
Cicero, whence his name 424. Cleomenes poisoned in Egypt 140. Cleopatra, mother of Ptolemy Phi- lometor, regent of Egypt 207, her death 219.
Cleopatra, queen of Syria, her many husbands 416, murders her own son to reign in his stead 418, at- tempts to murder another son 423, her wickedness ib. forced to drink poison ib.
Cleopatra, wife of Antiochus Cyzi- cenus, murdered by her sister Try. phæna 426.
Cleopatra, mother of Lathyrus and Alexander, kings of Egypt and Cyprus, her ambition 424. Cale-Syria, what that country was 155.
Colossus of Rhodes thrown down
138, described ib. Comets, appearances of them 421. Conon of Samus, the mathematician, his gross flattery of Berenice, wife to Ptolemy Euergetes 122. Constellation, why called Coma Be- renices 123.
Coptus on the Nile, made a mart for the eastern trade 109. Corinth destroyed 363. Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, re- fuses to marry Ptolemy Physcon, king of Egypt 305. Corupedion, a fight there between Seleucus and Lysimachus 46. Corycus, naval fight of, between the Syrian and Roman fleets 190. Cos, island of, Hippocrates born there 108, Berosus there ib. Court, outer, of the temple, what it was 374, Note.
Crates, deputy-governour of Jerusa
Cynocephalus, battle of, between the Romans and Macedonians 178. Cyprus delivered to the king of Sy. ria 228.
Cyrillus Lucaris, patriarch of Con- stantinople, presents king Charles I. with the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint 95.
Damascus taken by Antiochus the Great 148.
Daniel, book of, the Septuagint ver- sion faulty 85, a prophecy of his touching the marriage of Antio- chus Theus with Ptolemy's daugh- ter Berenice fulfilled 115, to whom the prophecies in his eleventh chap- ter are to be applied ib. his prophe- cy of the effects of Berenice's mar- riage fulfilled 122, of Antiochus the Great 197, and of the Ptolemies ib. of Seleucus Philopater 211, of An- tiochus Epimanes 212. 276, the end of the prophecies relating to the kings of Syria and Egypt 278, to the persecution of the Jews ib. Porphyry the Pagan owns the full completion of them 279, relate also to Antichrist 282, what is meant by his time, times, and half a time ib.
David, sepulchre of, the story of the treasure there false 399. Dedication, feast of, appointed by Judas Maccabæus 267, honoured with Christ's presence 268. Delphos, the Gauls defeated there 51. Demetrius Soter, son of Seleucus Philopater, set aside in the suc- cession by the Romans 290, his escape from Rome 304, seizes the kingdom of Syria 305, courts the Romans 338, assists an impostor in Cappadocia 343, a plot against him 347, distressed by an impos- tor 551, killed 352. Demetrius Nicator his son, attempts for the kingdom 358, obtains it 363, his ill qualities 366, assisted by Jonathan in his distress 369, his vices 377, routed and taken by the Parthians 381, kept in easy cap- tivity ib. returns and recovers his
kingdom 406, overthrown by an impostor 417, killed ib. Demetrius, his great preparations for war 25, abandoned by his army ib. straitened 26, fights his way through his enemies 27, surren- ders himself to Seleucus 28, his way of living afterwards ib. quits the siege of Rhodes 139. Demetrius his son, murdered for his
amour with Apame 111. Demetrius, the Phalerean, first librá- rian at Alexandria 41, prince of Athens 42, his story 44, dissuades Ptolemy from disinheriting his eldest son ib. imprisoned, and dies of the bite of an asp ib. Demetrius, the historian, what of him preserved by Eusebius 78. Dicearchus, his treason and punish- ment 182.
Dinocrates, the architect, proposes to build an extraordinary temple for Arsinoe at Alexandria 116. Dionysius' rules for keeping Easter observed $26.
Divination, a way of it used by Chris- tians 435.
Doctors of the Jewish law cease 22, revive ib. compose the Jewish san- hedrims ib. Mishnical, the first of them 104, of the law, slain by king Alexander for opposing his priest- hood 172, of the divinity school at Jerusalem 382, their degree of Gaon, what 448.
Dor, near Mount Carmel, taken by the Syrians 149.
Easter, how settled by the first Chris- tians 315, the use of the British church about it 320, a schism about it in Britain 321, rules for keeping it observed 326, when it will fall any year 327.
Ebionites, their heresy explained 83. Ecclesiasticns, book of, when pub-
lished 75, translated in Egypt by Jesus the son of Sirach 402, not written by Sirach 403, the Latin version has more in it than the Greek 404. Ekron, and its territory, given to Jonathan, the high priest, by Ba. las, the impostor of Syria 361. Edomites, where they dwelt 270, slain by Judas Maccabæus 286. Egyptians will not offer the blood of
beasts in their sacrifices 36, mur- der a man for killing a cat 37. Elath, a great mart of the Tyrians 108.
Eleazar succeeds his brother, the high priest 21. Eleazar, the martyr 248. Eleazar, brother of Judas, his rash actions and death 298.
Elymais, temple of Diana, attempted to be robbed by Antiochus Epiph- anes 272, as that of Belus had been by his father 275. Ephesus taken by Antiochus the Great 178.
Ephron taken by storm, and razed, by Judas Maccabæus 296. Epicrates, general to Antiochus Cy- zicenus, his treason 428, 429. Epicureans, wherein they differed from the Sadducees 105, 443, the boast of their founder 444. Epigenes, Antiochus' general, mur- dered by treason 142.
Epiphanius, bishop of Salamine, his account of the Septuagint 61, con- futed 74.
Eratosthenes, the Athenian, made library-keeper by Ptolemy Euer- getes 128, a picce of his extant ib. his death 184.
Essenes, a sect of the Jews, their opinions about predestination and free will 453, never mentioned by our Saviour, and why ib. a large account of them 454, their great purity 456, 457, their novitiates 457, their sabbaths 459, for the immortality of the soul 460, their prophecies 461, their number 463, their ethics 464, haters of servi- tude 473, their mean fare 474, what Pliny says of them ib. errours of papists about them 475, of deists 478, Christ said to be one of them 478.
Euleus, the eunuch, a wicked min- ister of Ptolemy's 230. Eumenes succeeds his uncle Phile- terus, the eunuch, in the kingdom of Pergamus 103, defeats Antio- chus Soter 106, over-runs Asia Minor 125, his luxury 126. Eumenes succeeds his father Atta- lus 177, founds the library at Per- gamus ib. his love to his brethren ib. refuses to marry a daughter of Antiochus the Great 185, relieved by the Romans 191, they gave him some of Antiochus' provinces 195, assists the king of Cappado- cia against an impostor 341, his death ib.
Euthydemus makes himself king of Bactria 165, allowed that title by Antiochus 167.
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