[374]. Or, according to another reading, “to be convinced.”
[376]. Ragaba.
[377]. Conj. Niese; MSS “send for their soldiers.”
[378]. Another reading, “fifty years save one.”
[380]. Reading αὐτῆς; lit. “grew up beside into her power” (like suckers round a tree). With the reading αὐτῇ, “Beside A. there rose to power....”
[381]. By taking the oath of allegiance to him.
[382]. Jos. uses this form and “Essenes” interchangeably.