[203] He was 30.
[204] i.e. to Galba.
[205] She was the granddaughter of Herod the Great, and lived with her brother, Herod Agrippa (cp. chap. [81]), ruler of Peraea. They heard St. Paul at Caesarea. She had married first her uncle, Herod Agrippa, prince of Chalcis; then Polemo II, king of Pontus, whom she left. She was known to have visited Titus in Rome, and he was said to have promised her marriage.
[206] i.e. across the open sea.
[207] In Cyprus.
[208] Another mythical king of Cyprus. Hesychius calls him a son of Apollo, and Ovid makes him the father of Adonis.
[209] From the flight and cries of birds.
[210] i.e. the Tamiradae.
[211] i.e. a conical stone.