Chapter IV: Sketch of Jewish History Between Nebuchadnezzar and Constantine

Footnote 60:

The Carduchi, Taochi, Chalybes, Phasiani (Xenophon, An. IV. iii. 6),
make friends with the Greek adventurers, or oppose them on their own
account without any apparent reference to the fact that the army of
the Ten Thousand was part of a hostile force recently defeated by
their sovereign.

Footnote 61:

Herodotus, vii. 89: παρείχοντο δὲ αὐτὰς (sc. τὰς
τριήρεας) εοἵδε, Φοίνικες μὲν σὺν Σὺροισι τοῖσι ὲν τῆ
Παλαιστίν ῃ, and he later defines the name specifically
(_ibid._): τῆς δὲ Συρίας τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον καὶ τὸ μέχρι Αιγύπτου
πᾶν Παλαιστίνη καλέεται.

Footnote 62:

Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan, edited by Sayce and Cowley,
London, 1906. Aramäische Papyri ... zu Elephantine, ed. Sachau,
Leipzig, 1911.

Footnote 63:

Josephus, Antiquities, XI. vii. Reference to the same incident in
Eusebius, Chron. (Ol. 103), Syncellus (486, 10), and Orosius (iii. 7)
depends upon Eusebius. The general statement of pseudo-Hecataeus (ap.
Joseph, in Ap. i. 22) is, of course, worthless as evidence.

Ochus was especially noted for his sacrilege. (Cf. Aelian, N. A. x.
23).

Footnote 64:

After the death of Antiochus Sidetes, in 129 B.C.E., the various
occupants or claimants of the Syrian throne are scarcely to be
distinguished by nickname or number. They are uniformly imbeciles or
puppets, and the last of them, Antiochus XIII, dies miserably at the
hands of a Bedouin sheik.

Footnote 65:

In the Talmud John Hyrcanus is always יהוחנן כהן הגדל,
but Alexander is יני המלך. On the coins John styles
himself High Priest; but Jannai, on both his Hebrew and Greek coins,
bears the title of King, יהונתן המלך and Αλεξάνδρου
βασίλεως. Cf. Madden, Coins of the Jews. We have no record that
the royal title was specifically bestowed upon Jannai, either by the
Seleucids or by the people. It is therefore likely that it was assumed
without such authorization. The high-priesthood, on the other hand,
was duly conferred upon Simon and his descendants.