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133rd Olympiad

37 a When the Parthians had rebelled against Macedonian rule, Arsaces was the first to reign; hence they were called Arsacids.

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3rd of Egypt, Ptolemy Euergetes, for 26 years

In Syria, Seleucus Callinicus, for 20 years.

136th Olympiad

11 b At Rome, a vestal virgin who had been corrupted by a slave, did away with herself by her own hand.

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1 b Onias the high priest of the Jews, the son of Simon the Just, is considered important, who, failing to render the usual tribute to king Ptolemy, compelled him to anger. In fact, Josephus, a noble man among his own people, having been sent by the Jews as an ambassador to Ptolemy, when he had won the friendship of the king because of his many presents to him, is appointed governor of Judaea and the surrounding region.

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