[134]. Gr. “drachmae.” The drachma was nearly the equivalent of the Lat. denarius, in value a little less than the modern “franc.”
[135]. Or “in all his actions.”
[136]. In the parallel passage (B.J. I. 660), “I know that the Jews will observe my death as a feast-day.” It has been thought that a festival on the second of the month Shebat, of which the occasion is unrecorded, may have commemorated Herod’s death.
[137]. Lit. “give your vote.”
[138]. Or, perhaps, “Their lack of discipline, although they were bold enough (counselled prudence).”
[139]. Nicolas of Damascus, minister and historian of Herod the Great.
[140]. Var. lect. “and many (others)” (πολλοὺς); in B.J. Poplas.
[141]. Augustus.
[142]. Augustus.
[143]. Reading ῥοπὴν (conj. Niese). With MS reading τροπὴν, “had been strongly moved” by Nicolaus’s arguments.