[124]. Josephus, Ant. XII. iv.
[125]. Abot i. 4; Shab. 46 a; Eduy. viii. 4; Pes. 15 a.
Chapter X
ANTIOCHUS THE MANIFEST GOD
[126]. Polybius, XXVI. i. 1: Ἀντίοχος ὁ ν Ἐπιφανὴς μὲν κληθεὶς Επιμανὴς δ’ ἐκ τῶν πράξεων ὀνομασθείς. Cf. also Athenaeus, v. 5 (193), and x. 10 (439).
[127]. Ptolemy Euergetes II (Athenaeus, x. 10, 438 D).
[128]. It is usual to speak of the Seleucid kingdom as Syria. That, however, conveys a wholly wrong impression of either the pretensions of the house or the actual extent of its dominion. Seleucus himself actually maintained his authority within what is now Hindustan and was styled “king of Asia,” where he was not called simply “the king” as Alexander and the Persians had been before him. Even when Antiochus the Great gave up all his Asiatic possessions north of the Taurus, he did not renounce his claim to the Persian and Oriental patrimony of Alexander.
[129]. Zeitschr. d. deut. morg. Gesell. xxiii. 371; Nöldeke, Die sem. Spr. 41 f.; Zeitschr. f. Assyr. vi. 26. Cf. also Gardner, Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India.
[130]. The full title is Θεὸς Επιφανής, as it appears upon coins.
[131]. The στρατηγός ἐπὶ τὰ ὅ πλα i.e. “general of infantry,” was at that time practically equivalent to the chief magistracy. Athenian coins of the year 175 B.C.E. bear his name and the elephant which was the heraldic emblem of his house. Reinach, Rev. d. et. gr. 1888, 163 f.
[132]. Josephus, Ant. XII. v.