th
Col, spoken of by the later Rabbins, or otherwise, I cannot tell. See Of
the War, B. II. ch. 8. sect. 12.

[32] The reason why Hyrcanus suffered not this son of his whom he
did not love to come into Judea, but ordered him to be brought up in
Galilee, is suggested by Dr. Hudson, that Galilee was not esteemed so
happy and well cultivated a country as Judea, Matthew 26:73; John 7:52;
Acts 2:7, although another obvious reason occurs also, that he was out
of his sight in Galilee than he would have been in Judea.

[33] From these, and other occasional expressions, dropped by Josephus,
we may learn, that where the sacred hooks of the Jews were deficient,
he had several other histories then extant, [but now most of them lost,]
which he faithfully followed in his own history; nor indeed have we any
other records of those times, relating to Judea, that can be compared
to these accounts of Josephus, though when we do meet with authentic
fragments of such original records, they almost always confirm his
history.

[34] This city, or island, Cos, is not that remote island in the Aegean
Sea, famous for the birth of the great Hippocrates, but a city or island
of the same name adjoining to Egypt, mentioned both by Stephanus and
Ptolemy, as Dr. Mizon informs us. Of which Cos, and the treasures there
laid up by Cleopatra and the Jews, see Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 7, sect. 2.

[35] This account of the death of Antiochus Grypus is confirmed by
Appion, Syriac. p. 132, here cited by Spanheim.

[36] 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.

[37] 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.

[38] 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 rea