[The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem CHAPTER 33 17/37
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 seem to have proceeded from his true zeal for public liberty, but from a desire to be a tyrant himself. [17] Phasaelus and Herod. [18] This large and noted wood, or woodland, belonging to Carmel, called Apago by the Septuagint, is mentioned in the Old Testament, 2 Kings 19:23; Isaiah 37:24, and by I Strabo, B.XVI.p.
758, as both Aldrich and Spanheim here remark very pertinently. [19] These accounts, both here and Antiq.
B.XIV.
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