The Lantern

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18 140 11 e Simon the high priest of the Jews is slain, to whom succeeds his son John.

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g Ptolemy marries off his daughter to Demetrius, along with the kingdom which he had taken away from Alexander. 12 f The first book of the Maccabees contains a history of this time.

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162nd Olympiad g Antiochus Sidetes, king of Syria, taking up arms against Judaea and surrounding Jerusalem with a siege trench, when he had forced the high priest Simon to terms, withdraws, in the 162nd Olympiad.

6 h L. Accius, a tragedian, is considered important. (He was) born to freed parents in the consulship of Mancinus and Serranus, and already recited his own writings to Pacuvius of Tarentus when he [Pacuvius) was an old man: from

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Of the Jews, Duke Simon, for 8 years. 14

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Of the Jews, King Hyrcanus, also called John, for 26 years.

h Dying, Attalus made the Roman

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