Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), M, M, Machaerus

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Machaerus

（Μαχαιροῦς). A fortified place in the southern part of Peraea in Palestine. Tradition makes John the Baptist to have been beheaded here.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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