rom this era,
is a certain evidence of this its rebuilding by Pompey, as Spanheim here
assures us.

[10] Take the like attestation to the truth of this submission of
Aretas, king of Arabia, to Scaurus the Roman general, in the words of
Dean Aldrich. "Hence [says he] is derived that old and famous Denarius
belonging to the Emillian family [represented in Havercamp's edition],
wherein Aretas appears in a posture of supplication, and taking hold of
a camel's bridle with his left hand, and with his right hand presenting
a branch of the frankincense tree, with this inscription, M. SCAURUS EX
S.C.; and beneath, REX ARETAS."

[11] This citation is now wanting.

[12] What is here noted by Hudson and Spanheim, that this grant of leave
to rebuild the walls of the cities of Judea was made by Julius Caesar,
not as here to Antipater, but to Hyrcanas, Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 8. sect.
5, has hardly an appearance of a contradiction; Antipater being now
perhaps considered only as Hyrcanus's deputy and minister; although
he afterwards made a cipher of Hyrcanus, and, under great decency of
behavior to him, took the real authority to himself.

[13] Or twenty-five years of age. See note on Antiq. B. I. ch. 12. sect.
3; and on B. XIV. ch. 9. sect. 2; and Of the War, B. II. ch. 11. sect.
6; and Polyb. B. XVII. p. 725. Many writers of the Roman history give an
account of this murder of Sextus Caesar, and of the war of Apamia upon
that occasion. They are cited in Dean Aldrich's note.

[14] In the Antiquities, B. XIV. ch. 11. sect. 1, the duration of the
reign of Julius Caesar is three years six months; but here three years
seven months, beginning nightly, says Dean Aldrich, from his second
dictatorship. It is probable the real duration might be three years and
between six and seven months.

[15] It appears evidently by Josephus's accounts, both here and in his
Antiquities, B. XIV. ch. 11. sect. 2, that this Cassius, one of Caesar's
murderers, was a bitter oppressor, and exactor of tribute in Judea.
These seven hundred talents amount to about three hundred thousand
pounds sterling, and are about half the yearly revenues of king Herod
afterwards. See the note on Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 11. sect. 4. It also
appears that Galilee then paid no more than one hundred talents, or the
seventh part of the entire sum to be levied in all the country.

[16] Here we see that Cassius set tyrants over all Syria; so that his
assisting to destroy Caesar does not s