John Malalas, Chronography

having brought the Maccabees to Antioch he tortured and killed them. And he deposed the high priesthood of Judea, and the temple of the Jews, which was Solomon's, he made a temple of Zeus 207 Olympius and Athena, defiling the house with swine's flesh, and he prevented the Jews from their ancestral religion and forced them to Hellenize for three years. And this same Antiochus died, and his son Antiochus Glaucus, called Hierax, reigned for two years. And after him Demetrianus, son of Seleucus, reigned for 8 years. and a certain man named Judas, a Jew by race, having come to Antioch the great, besought Demetrianus the king, entreating him, and he gave him the temple and the relics of the Maccabees. and they buried them in Antioch the great in the so-called Kerateion; for there was a synagogue of the Jews there; for a little before the city of Antioch, Antiochus had punished them on the ever-weeping mountain opposite Casius Zeus. And Judas, having purified the temple and rebuilt Jerusalem, celebrated the Passover to God. This was the 2nd capture of Jerusalem, as Eusebius of Pamphilus chronicled. And after Demetrianus, Antiochus the grandson of Grypus became king, the son of Laodice, daughter of Ariarathes, king of the Cappadocians, for 9 years. and Antioch the great then suffered a divine wrath in the eighth year of his reign, under the same Macedonians, 152 years after the foundation of the wall was laid from the beginning by Seleucus Nicator, at the 10th hour of the day, on the 21st of the month 208 Peritius, which is also February. and it was all renewed, as Domnus the chronicler wrote; and after the walls and the whole city were completed, it suffered after 122 years; and it became better. And after Antiochus, grandson of Grypus, reigned Antiochus Euergetes, who was tyrannized by the Parthians and campaigned greatly against them. and after many Parthians had perished, they came to friendship; and he took for his son Antiochus, called Cyzicenus, a wife, the daughter of Arsaces the Parthian who had tyrannized him, by name Brittane; and the war ceased. And after Antiochus Euergetes, 9 other kings from his line reigned until the reign of Antiochus Dionicus the leper, the father of Cleopatra and Antiochis. And in the times of the reign of those before the aforementioned Antiochus Dionicus, the king, or rather toparch, Pyrrhus the Epirote, ruled the Romans, having received an oracle that he would die by a woman. and Curius, the consul of the Romans, joining battle with him, defeated him; and Pyrrhus, having fled, came near a city which had houses outside the walls; and a woman, having thrown a tile against the top of his head, killed him. And after these things, Magnus, also called Paulus the Macedonian, became consul; who killed in battle the king of Macedonia 209 named Perses, and taking the country of Macedonia, he made it subject to the Romans; whom Sallust mentions in his Catilinarian exposition, recalling the oration of Caesar. and after these things, Perses the Epirote, the neomachos and toparch of Thessaly, reigns over his own country, whom Eutropius the Roman writer named Perses in his own exposition in his translation. And Palaephatus also mentions him. And Lucius Paulus, consul of the Romans, destroyed this same Perses in war. In which times, a certain Hannibal by name, king of the Africans, tyrannized Rome for twenty years, it being without a king, but administered by the consuls. who destroyed the greater part of all Italy, subjugating it by wars, and he slays the aforementioned Paulus. And finally the senate of Rome put forward a consul powerful in all things, but especially in wars, the so-called Scipio the great. which Scipio, while Hannibal was lingering in Italy, took a multitude of soldiers and went away into the country of Hannibal, to Africa, and destroyed it, setting it on fire

Μακκαβεῖς ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ἀγαγὼν κολάσας ἐφόνευσε. καὶ καθεῖλε τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην τῆς Ἰουδαίας, καὶ τὸ ἱερόν, Σολομῶντος ὄντα, τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐποίησε ∆ιὸς 207 Ὀλυμπίου καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς, μιάνας τὸν οἶκον χοιρείοις κρέασι, καὶ ἐκώλυσε τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τῆς πατρῴας θρησκείας καὶ ἑλληνίζειν αὐτοὺς ἐβιάζετο ἐπὶ ἔτη τρία. Καὶ τελευτᾷ ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀντίοχος, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ αὐτοῦ υἱὸς Ἀντίοχος ὁ Γλαυκὸς ὁ λεγόμενος Ἱέραξ ἔτη δύο. Καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ ∆ημητριανὸς ὁ Σελεύκου ἔτη ηʹ. καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ Ἰούδας τις ὀνόματι, Ἰουδαῖος τῷ ἔθνει, ἐδυσώπησε ∆ημητριανὸν τὸν βασιλέα παρακαλέσας αὐτόν, καὶ παρέσχεν αὐτῷ τὸ ἱερὸν καὶ τὰ λείψανα τῶν Μακκαβαίων. καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὰ ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ Κερατέῳ· ἦν γὰρ συναγωγὴ ἐκεῖ τῶν Ἰουδαίων· πρὸ μικροῦ γὰρ τῆς πόλεως Ἀντιοχείας ἐτιμωρήσατο αὐτοὺς Ἀντίοχος ἐν τῷ ἀεὶ κλαίοντι ὄρει κατέναντι τοῦ Κασίου ∆ιός. τὸν δὲ ναὸν ἁγνεύσας ὁ Ἰούδας καὶ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ κτίσας τὸ πάσχα ἐτέλεσε τῷ θεῷ. αὕτη βʹ ἦν τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἡ ἅλωσις, καθὼς Εὐσέβιος ὁ Παμφίλου ἐχρονογράφησε. Μετὰ δὲ ∆ημητριανὸν ἐγένετο βασιλεὺς Ἀντίοχος ὁ ἔκγονος τοῦ Γρύπου, υἱὸς Λαοδίκης, θυγατρὸς Ἀριαράθου, βασιλέως Καππαδόκων, ἔτη θʹ. καὶ ἔπαθε τότε ὑπὸ θεομηνίας Ἀντιόχεια ἡ μεγάλη τῷ ὀγδόῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν Μακεδόνων, μετὰ τὸ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τεθῆναι θεμέλιον τείχους ὑπὸ Σελεύκου τοῦ Νικάτορος μετὰ ἄλλα ἔτη ρνβʹ, ὥραν ἡμερινὴν ιʹ, μηνὶ 208 περιτίῳ τῷ καὶ φεβρουαρίῳ καʹ. καὶ ἀνενεώθη πᾶσα, καθὼς ∆όμνος ὁ χρονογράφος συνεγράψατο· μετὰ δὲ τὸ πληρωθῆναι τὰ τείχη καὶ τὴν πόλιν πᾶσαν μετὰ ρκβʹ ἔτη ἔπαθε· καὶ βελτίων ἐγένετο. Μετὰ δὲ Ἀντίοχον ἔκγονον τοῦ Γρύπου ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀντίοχος ὁ Εὐεργέτης, ὅστις ἐτυραννήθη ὑπὸ Πάρθων καὶ ἐπεστράτευσε κατ' αὐτῶν μεγάλως. καὶ μετὰ τὸ πολλοὺς ἀπολέσθαι Πάρθους εἰς φιλίαν ἦλθον· καὶ ἔλαβε γυναῖκα Ἀντιόχῳ τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ τῷ λεγομένῳ Κυζικηνῷ τὴν θυγατέρα Ἀρσάκους τοῦ Πάρθου τοῦ τυραννήσαντος αὐτὸν ὀνόματι Βριττάνην· καὶ ἐπαύθη ὁ πόλεμος. Μετὰ δὲ Ἀντίοχον τὸν Εὐεργέτην ἐβασίλευσαν ἐκ τοῦ γένους αὐτοῦ ἄλλοι θʹ βασιλεῖς ἕως τῆς βασιλείας Ἀντιόχου τοῦ ∆ιονίκους τοῦ λεπροῦ τοῦ πατρὸς Κλεοπάτρας καὶ Ἀντιοχίδος. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τῆς βασιλείας τῶν πρὸ Ἀντιόχου τοῦ ∆ιονίκους τοῦ προειρημένου ἐτυράννησε Ῥωμαίους ὁ βασιλεύς, ἤτοι τοπάρχης, Πύῤῥος ὁ Ἠπειρώτης, λαβὼν χρησμὸν ὅτι ὑπὸ γυναικὸς ἀποθνήσκει. καὶ συμβαλὼν αὐτῷ πόλεμον ὁ Κύριος ὕπατος Ῥωμαίων ἐνίκησεν αὐτόν· καὶ φυγὼν ὁ Πύῤῥος ἦλθε πλησίον πόλεως ἐχρύσης ἔξω τειχῶν οἰκήματα· καὶ ῥίψασα γυνὴ κεραμῖδα κατὰ τῆς κορυφῆς αὐτοῦ ἐφόνευσεν αὐτόν. Μετὰ ταῦτα δὲ ἐγένετο ὕπατος Μάγνος ὁ καὶ Παῦλος ὁ Μακεδών· ὅστις ἐφόνευσεν ἐν πολέμῳ τὸν βασιλέα τῆς Μακεδονίας 209 ὀνόματι Πέρσην, καὶ παραλαβὼν τὴν Μακεδονίαν χώραν ἐποίησεν αὐτὴν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίους· περὶ οὗ Σαλλούστιος μέμνηται εἰς τὴν Κατελλιναρίαν ἔκθεσιν, μνημονεύων τῆς δημηγορίας τοῦ Καίσαρος. καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα βασιλεύει τῆς ἰδίας χώρας Περσεὺς ὁ Ἠπειρώτης ὁ νεομάχος καὶ τοπάρχης Θεσσαλίας, ὅντινα Περσέα ὠνόμασε τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐκθέσει Εὐτρόπιος ὁ συγγραφεὺς Ῥωμαίων ἐν τῇ μεταφράσει αὐτοῦ. τούτου δὲ καὶ Παλαίφατος μέμνηται. τὸν δὲ αὐτὸν Περσέα πολέμῳ ἀνεῖλε Λούκιος Παῦλος, ὕπατος Ῥωμαίων. Ἐν οἷς χρόνοις Ἀννιβάλ τις ὀνόματι, ῥὴξ τῶν Ἄφρων, ἐτυράννησε τὴν Ῥώμην ἐπὶ ἔτη εἴκοσιν, ἀβασίλευτον οὖσαν, διοικουμένην δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ὑπάτων. ὅστις τῆς Ἰταλίας πάσης τὸ πολὺ μέρος ἀπώλεσεν ὑποτάξας πολέμοις, καὶ σφάζει τὸν προειρημένον Παῦλον. καὶ λοιπὸν προεβάλετο ἡ σύγκλητος Ῥώμης ὕπατον δυνατὸν ἐν πᾶσι, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν πολέμοις, τὸν λεγόμενον Σκηπίονα τὸν μέγαν. ὅστις Σκηπίων ἐν ᾧ ἦν διατρίβων ὁ Ἀννιβὰλ ἐν τῇ Ἰταλίᾳ ἔλαβε πλῆθος στρατοῦ καὶ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς τὴν χώραν τοῦ Ἀννιβαάλ, εἰς τὴν Ἀφρικήν, καὶ ἀπώλεσεν αὐτήν, ἐμπρήσας