Perses the king of
the Ceteans, and the rest that had borne arms against them, and had
conquered them:

Ceteans... That is, the Macedonians.

8:6. And how Antiochus, the great king of Asia, who went to fight
against them, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and
chariots, and a very great army, was routed by them.

8:7. And how they took him alive, and appointed to him, that both he and
they that should reign after him, should pay a great tribute, and that
he should give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,

8:8. And the country of the Indians, and of the Medes, and of the
Lydians, some of their best provinces: and those which they had taken
from them, they gave to king Eumenes.

Eumenes... King of Pergamus.

8:9. And that they who were in Greece, had a mind to go and to destroy
them: and they had knowledge thereof,

8:10. And they sent a general against them, and fought with them, and
many of them were slain, and they carried away their wives, and their
children captives, and spoiled them, and took possession of their land,
and threw down their walls, and brought them to be their servants unto
this day.

8:11. And the other kingdoms, and islands, that at any time had resisted
them, they had destroyed and brought under their power.

8:12. But with their friends, and such as relied upon them, they kept
amity, and had conquered kingdoms that were near, and that were far off:
for all that heard their name, were afraid of them.

8:13. That whom they had a mind to help to a kingdom, those reigned: and
whom they would, they deposed from the kingdom: and they were greatly
exalted.

8:14. And none of all these wore a crown, or was clothed in purple, to
be magnified thereby.

8:15. And that they had made themselves a senate house, and consulted
daily three hundred and twenty men, that sat in counsel always for the
people, that they might do the things that were right:

8:16. And that they committed their government to one man every year, to
rule over all their country, and they all obey one, and there is no envy
nor jealousy amongst them.

To one man... There were two consuls: but one only ruled at one time,
each in his day.-Ibid. No envy, etc... So Judas had heard: and it was so
far true, with regard to the ancient Romans, that as yet no envy or
jealousy had divided them into such open factions and civil wars, as
they afterwards experienced in the time of Marius and Sylla, etc.

8:17. S