eem to have proceeded from his
true zeal for public liberty, but from a desire to be a tyrant himself.

[17] Phasaelus and Herod.

[18] This large and noted wood, or woodland, belonging to Carmel, called
Apago by the Septuagint, is mentioned in the Old Testament, 2 Kings
19:23; Isaiah 37:24, and by I Strabo, B. XVI. p. 758, as both Aldrich
and Spanheim here remark very pertinently.

[19] These accounts, both here and Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13. sect. 5, that
the Parthians fought chiefly on horseback, and that only some few of
their soldiers were free-men, perfectly agree with Trogus Pompeius, in
Justin, B. XLI. 2, 3, as Dean Aldrich well observes on this place.

[20] Mariamac here, in the copies.

[21] This Brentesium or Brundusium has coin still preserved, on which is
written, as Spanheim informs us.

[22] This Dellius is famous, or rather infamous, in the history of Mark
Antony, as Spanheim and Aldrich here note, from the coins, from Plutarch
and Dio.

[23] This Sepphoris, the metropolis of Galilee, so often mentioned by
Josephus, has coins still remaining, as Spanheim here informs us.

[24] This way of speaking, "after forty days," is interpreted by
Josephus himself, "on the fortieth day," Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 15. sect.
4. In like manner, when Josephus says, ch. 33. sect. 8, that Herod lived
"after" he had ordered Antipater to be slain "five days;" this is by
himself interpreted, Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 8. sect. 1, that he died "on
the fifth day afterward." So also what is in this book, ch. 13. sect.
1, "after two years," is, Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13. sect. 3, "on the second
year." And Dean Aldrich here notes that this way of speaking is familiar
to Josephus.

[25] This Samosata, the metropolis of Commagena, is well known from
its coins, as Spanheim here assures us. Dean Aldrich also confirms what
Josephus here notes, that Herod was a great means of taking the city by
Antony, and that from Plutarch and Dio.

[26] That is, a woman, not, a man.

[27] This death of Antigonus is confirmed by Plutarch and. Straho; the
latter of whom is cited for it by Josephus himself, Antiq. B. XV. ch. 1.
sect. 2, as Dean Aldrich here observes.

[28] This ancient liberty of Tyre and Sidon under the Romans, taken
notice of by Josephus, both here and Antiq. B. XV. ch. 4. sect. 1, is
confirmed by the testimony of Sirabe, B. XVI. p. 757, as Dean Aldrich
remarks; although, as he justly adds, this liberty lasted but a little
while longer, whe