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36 a Herod killed Hyrcanus, who previously had been high priest of the Jews, when he returned from his Parthian captivity, and killed his son, who had succeeded his father in the high priesthood: in addition, he most cruelly puts to death his (Hyrcanus's) sister, his very own wife, with his own two sons already in adolescence, and the mother of his murdered wife, his mother-in-law. 26 8 from the weariness of a double quartan fever.
41 a Herod added to these things, which he accomplished above cruelly, this also: he killed the husband of his sister Salome, and when he handed her over to another, he put him to death, too: morever he slew the scribes and translators of the divine law in a similar crime. 31 3
b Tertullian, in that book which he wrote against the Jews, affirms that Christ was born in the 41st year of Augustus, and suffered in the 15th of Tiberius. *
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38 b Tiberius celebrated a triumph over the Rhetians, Vindelicians, Armenians, and the Pannonians. 28 6 c Jesus Christ, the son of GOD, is born in Bethlehem of Judah
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c Albutius Silo of Novara, an important rhetor, is well known. * d Quirinius, sent to Judaea by a resolution of the senate, makes a survey of men and property.
39 d Many things were ruined in an earthquake on the island of Cos. 29 5
e All the years taken together from Abraham until the birth of Christ come to 2015 years.
e Augustus condemns to exile his daughter Julia, caught in adultery.
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194th Olympiad f C. Caesar made a treaty with the Parthians.
f M. Tullius Tiro, Cicero's freedman, who is credited with being the first to use shorthand, lives to his 100th year on his estate in Puteoli. * 44 g Sextus the Pythagorean philosopher is well known. 34 1 AD
h Augustus adopts Tiberius and Agrippa as his sons.
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g Augustus exhibited gladatorial games and a naval battle. 45 i Judas the Gallilean urges the Jews to rebel. 35 2
h Melissus of Spoleto, the grammarian, is well known. * k Herod, when he had learned of the nativity of CHRIST from the information of the Magi, ordered all the infants in Bethlehem to be killed.
i M. Porcius Latro, the Latin declaimer, killed himself
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46 a Herod, suffering from the dropsy and with his whole body infested with worms, dies miserably and deservedly. 36 3 lost his memory and intellect that he could scarcely string a few words together, and at the end, when a sore had developed around his lower spine, he ended his life by fasting at 72 years of age. *
2020 47 b Asinius Pollio, orator and consul, who had celebrated a triumph over the Dalmatians, dies at his Tuscan villa in the 70th years of his life. * 37 4
Of the Jews, Duke Archelaus, for 9 years 198th Olympiad