17 ([return])
[ Phasaelus and Herod.]
18 ([return])
[ This large and noted wood, or woodland, belonging to Carmel, called Apago by the Septuagint, is mentioned in the Old Testament, 2 Kings 19:23; Isaiah 37:24, and by I Strabo, B. XVI. p. 758, as both Aldrich and Spanheim here remark very pertinently.]
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[ These accounts, both here and Antiq. B. XIV. 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.]
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[ Mariamac here, in the copies.]
21 ([return])
[ This Brentesium or Brundusium has coin still preserved, on which is written, as Spanheim informs us.]