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ch.13.sect.5, that the Parthians fought chiefly on horseback, and that only some few of their soldiers were free-men, perfectly agree with Trogus Pompeius, in Justin, B.XLI.2, 3, as Dean Aldrich well observes on this place. [20] Mariamac here, in the copies. [21] This Brentesium or Brundusium has coin still preserved, on which is written, as Spanheim informs us. [22] This Dellius is famous, or rather infamous, in the history of Mark Antony, as Spanheim and Aldrich here note, from the coins, from Plutarch and Dio. [23] This Sepphoris, the metropolis of Galilee, so often mentioned by Josephus, has coins still remaining, as Spanheim here informs us. [24] This way of speaking, "after forty days," is interpreted by Josephus himself, "on the fortieth day," Antiq.
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In like manner, when Josephus says, ch.33.sect.8, that Herod lived "after" he had ordered Antipater to be slain "five days;" this is by himself interpreted, Antiq.
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