[124]. Text doubtful.
[125]. Reading, with Niese, παραλειπτέον, “thought that none should be left (alive).” MSS παραληπτέον, which Whiston renders “would take no one into partnership with him.”
[126]. Or perhaps “is superior to all wise calculation.”
[127]. Adopting the conjecture ὡς νομίζω for ὡς μείζω. The text and meaning of this difficult passage are uncertain.
[128]. The doctrine of Free-will.
[129]. Or perhaps “... to the other, (under which) we do not deprive ourselves.”
[130]. Or “of the actions which he took to protect his life.”
[131]. The Romana potestas.
[132]. With special reference to Antipater, Herod’s heir and afterwards his victim.
[133]. Asphaltophoros (elsewhere Asphaltitis), i.e. the Dead Sea.