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Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book 1, section 303 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), Book 1, section 337 (search)
Death of Epigenes
The forces, however, having been mustered at Apameia,
upon a kind of mutiny arising among the common soldiers,
on account of some arrears of pay, Hermeias, observing the
king to be in a state of anxiety, and to be alarmed at the
disturbance at so critical a moment, offered to discharge all
arrears, if the king would only consent to Epigenes not
accompanying the expedition; on the ground that nothing
could be properly managed in the army when such angry
feelings, and such part his friends by fear, and of the troops by
being of service to them, started on the expedition in company
with the king; while in regard to Epigenes he elaborated the
following plot, with the assistance of Alexis, the commander
of the citadel of Apameia. He wrote a letter purporting to have
been sent from Molon to Epigenes, and persuaded one of the
latter's servants, by holding out the hope of great rewards, to
take it to the house of Epigenes, and mix it with his other
papers. Immediately afte
Seleucia
Every detail of these transactions was known to the king:
who, while sending frequent threatening messages to Achaeus,
was now concentrating all his efforts on the preparations for
the war against Ptolemy. War with Ptolemy B. C. 219. Having accordingly
mustered his forces at Apameia just before
spring, he summoned his friends to advise with
him as to the invasion of Coele-Syria. After many suggestions
had been made in respect to this undertaking, touching the
nature of the country, the military preparation required, and
the assistance to be rendered by the fleet,—Apollophanes of
Seleucia, whom I mentioned before, put an abrupt end to all
these suggestions by remarking that "it was folly
to desire Coele-Syria and to march against that,
while they allowed Seleucia to be held by
Ptolemy, which was the capital, and so to speak,
the very inner shrine of the king's realm. Apollophanes advises that they begin by taking Seleucia. Besides the disgrace
to the kingdom which its occupat
Description of Seleucia
In consequence of this decision, orders were sent to
Diognetus the commander of the fleet to sail towards Seleucia:
while Antiochus himself started from Apameia with his army,
and encamped near the Hippodrome, about five stades from
the town. He also despatched Theodotus Hemiolius with an
adequate force against Coele-Syria, with orders to occupy the
passes and to keep the road open for him.
The situation of Seleucia and the natural features of the
surrounding country are of this kind. The city
stands on the sea coast between Cilicia and
Phoenicia; and has close to it a very great
mountain called Coryphaeus, which on the west is washed by
the last waves of the sea which lies between Cyprus and
Phoenicia; while its eastern slopes overlook the territories of
Antioch and Seleucia. It is on the southern skirt of this
mountain that the town of Seleucia lies, separated from it by
a deep and difficult ravine. The town extends down to the
sea in a straggling line broke