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Antiochus Epiphanes
ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES, nicknamed from his actions
Antiochus Epiphanes, B. C. 175-164.
Epimanes (the Madman), would sometimes
steal from the court, avoiding his attendants,
and appear roaming wildly about in any
chance part of the city with one or two companions. His
favourite place to be found was the shops of the silversmiths or goldsmiths, chatting and discussing questions of art
with the workers in relief and other artists; at another time he
would join groups of the people of the town and converse with
any one he came across, and would drink with foreign visitors
of the humblest description. Whenever he found any young
men carousing together he would come to the place without
giving notice, with fife and band, like a rout of revellers, and
often by his unexpected appearance cause the guests to rise and
run away. He would often also lay aside his royal robes, and,
putting on a tebenna,This word, of unknown origin, seems to be used here for the toga, or
some dress
Antiochus and Ptolemy Appeal to Rome
WHEN the war between the kings Antiochus and PtolemyAntiochus IV. Epiphanes, B. C. 175-164; Ptolemy VI. Philometor,
B. C. 169, Antiochus and Ptolemy both appeal to Rome on the subject of Coele-Syria.
B. C. 181-146.
for the possession of Coele-Syria had just
begun, Meleager, Sosiphanes, and Heracleides
came as ambassadors from Antiochus, and
Timotheos and Damon from Ptolemy. The
one actually in possession of Coele-Syria and
Phoenicia was Antiochus; for ever since his father's victory
over the generals of Ptolemy at PaniumSee 16, 18. all those districts had
been subject to the Syrian kings. Antiochus, accordingly,
regarding the right of conquest as the strongest and most
honourable of all claims, was now eager to defend these places
as unquestionably belonging to himself: while Ptolemy, conceiving that the late king Antiochus had unjustly taken
advantage of his father's orphan condition to wrest the cities in
Coele-Syria from him, was resolved not t