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1 This account of the death of Antiochus Grypus is confirmed by Appion, Syriac. p. 132, here cited by Spanheim.
2 Porphyry says that this Antiochus Grypus reigned but twenty-six years, as Dr. Hudson observes. The copies of Josephus, both Greek and Latin, have here so grossly false a reading, Antiochus and Antoninus, or Antonius Plus, for Antiochus Pius, that the editors are forced to correct the text from the other historians, who all agree that this king's name was nothing more than Antiochus Plus.
3 These two brothers, Antiochus and Philippus are called twins by Porphyry; the fourth brother was king of Damascus: both which are the observations of Spanheim.
4 This Laodicea was a city of Gilead beyond Jordan. However, Porphyry says that this Antiochus Pius did not die in this battle; but, running away, was drowned in the river Orontes. Appian says that he, was deprived of the kingdom of Syria by Tigranes; but Porphyry makes this Laodice queen of the Calamans; — all which is noted by Spanheim. In such confusion of the later historians, we have no reason to prefer any of them before Josephus, who had more original ones before him. This reproach upon Alexander, that he was sprung from a captive, seems only the repetition of the old Pharisaical calumny upon his father, ch. 10. sect. 5.
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- Smith's Bio, Anti'ochus X. or Anti'ochus Eusebes
- Smith's Bio, Deme'trius Iii. or Deme'trius Eucaerus
- Smith's Bio, Lao'dice
- Smith's Bio, Philippus
- Smith's Bio, Ptolemaeus Viii. or Ptolemaeus Philometor or Ptolemaeus LATHYRUS or Ptolemaeus LATHURUS or Ptolemaeus Soter
- Smith's Bio, Seleucus Vi. or Seleucus Epiphanes