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as far as the Euphrates river. Pompey, having handed over to Scaurus for command and two Roman legions for alliance, hastened to Rome through Cilicia, himself to arrange the greatest triumph, leading the kings defeated by him: Pharnaces, son of Mithridates, who also endured to kill his own father Mithridates as a favor to Pompey and later rebelled against the Romans, a king of the Colchians or Laz, 20 rulers of the Iberians, Aristobulus, king of the Jews, with his two daughters and sons, Alexander and Antigonus, of whom the younger, Alexander, having escaped from the road, returns to Judea to cause a revolt, as will be shown.

360 OF GEORGE THE MOST REVEREND MONK AND SYNCLLUS OF TARASIUS THE MOST HOLY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE A COMPILATION OR CHRONOGRAPHY IN EPITOME FROM THE REIGN OF JULIUS CAESAR OF THE ROMANS IN THE YEAR FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD 5434 UNTIL THE REIGN OF THE FIRST YEAR OF DIOCLETIAN, YEAR OF THE WORLD 5777 ALTOGETHER 343 YEARS

Pompey, therefore, having taken Jerusalem by siege, Aristobulus as a prisoner

he held with his children Alexander and Antigonus as he was going to Rome, to celebrate a triumph over the kings and rulers of other nations as well; and having entrusted the high priesthood to his brother Hyrcanus, he made the Jews tributary to the Romans. And Cicero the orator and senator flourished among the Romans. He overthrew Catiline and Cethegus and Lentulus, who had conspired against the senate. Pompey, having come to Rome and triumphed for his many victories, was proclaimed imperator and was united in friendship with Gaius Julius Caesar and became his son-in-law through his daughter Julia. And Gaius, having been appointed general against the Gauls and Britons, was sent out, in great battles over ten years making the Gauls and Britons subject to the Romans, who possessed 500 cities, as Plutarch of Chaeronea the philosopher relates. Alexander, the elder son of Aristobulus, having escaped from Pompey, comes to Judea and having for a short time gained control of many of the Jews and 361 of the rule itself, was warred against by Gabinius and Antony and was cast out. And Hyrcanus again takes over the guardianship of the temple, and they divide the rest of the government into five parts on the advice of Antipater, assigning the first part to Jerusalem, the 2nd to Dora, the 3rd to Amathus, the 4th to Jericho, the 5th to the city of Sepphoris in Galilee. And from this time on they seemed to live aristocratically, until Aristobulus came, having fled from Rome with his younger child Antigonus; and again it was the beginning of disturbances for him, and having taken on many Jews and hastening to rebuild the fortress of Alexandreion. But having been very quickly captured while fleeing with his son after a battle, Gabinius having sent Sisenna and Antony and Servilianus against him with a Roman force, he is sent back to Rome again as a prisoner. And Alexander was alone in Judea, at one time fleeing the Romans, at another time harassing Hyrcanus and Antipater, to whom the care of the country had been entrusted by Pompey and thereafter; who, having been sent by Gabinius, routs Alexander in war, having killed ten thousand of those with him and having scattered the other twenty thousand in flight, with the help of allied Jews near Mount Itabyrion. Then Crassus, succeeding Gabinius and taking over the Syrian command, having campaigned against the Parthians or Persians, on his own authority plundered all the other decoration of the temple of the Jews and the two thousand talents which Pompey had spared. And having crossed the Euphrates river he perishes with his host, while Cassius, the quaestor of the same Crassus, recovered the survivors and the same Persians with great slaughter of the whole

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μέχρις Εὐφράτου ποταμοῦ. Ὁ Πομπήιος παραδοὺς Σκαύρῳ διέπειν καὶ δύο Ῥωμαϊκὰ τάγματα πρὸς συμμαχίαν εἰς Ῥώμην ἠπείγετο διὰ Κιλικίας, αὐτὸς τὸν μέγιστον κατα τάξων θρίαμβον, ἐπαγόμενος τοὺς ἡττηθέντας αὐτῷ βασιλεῖς Φαρνάκην Μηθριδάτου υἱόν, τὸν καὶ καρτερήσαντα τὸν ἴδιον ἀνελεῖν πατέρα Μηθρι δάτην τῇ πρὸς Πομπήιον χάριτι καὶ αὖθις κατὰ Ῥωμαίων στασιάσαντα, Κόλχων ἤτοι Λαζῶν βασιλέα, ἄρχοντας Ἰβήρων κʹ, Ἀριστόβουλον Ἰοδαίων βασιλέα σὺν θυγατράσι δυσὶ καὶ υἱοῖς, Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Ἀντιγόνῳ, ὧν ὁ νεώτερος ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ διαδρὰς Ἀλέξανδρος εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ἐπάνεισι στασιάσων, ὡς δηλωθήσεται.

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ΤΑΡΑΣΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΩΤΑΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΣΥΝΤΑΞΙΣ ΗΤΟΙ ΧΡΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΕΝ ΕΠΙΤΟΜΩΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑΣ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ ΕΤΟΥΣ ΑΠΟ ΚΤΙΣΕΩΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΥΛ∆ ΜΕΧΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΟΥ ΕΤΟΥΣ ∆ΙΟΚΛΗΤΙΑΝΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΟΥΣ ΕΨΟΖ ΟΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ ΤΜΤ

Πομπήιος οὖν πολιορκίᾳ λαβὼν τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα Ἀριστόβουλον μὲν δέσμιον

σὺν τοῖς παισὶν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Ἀντιγόνῳ κατεῖχεν εἰς Ῥώμηνἀπιών, θριαμβεύσων καὶ ἄλλων ἐθνῶν βασιλεῖς καὶ ἡγεμόνας· Ὑρκανῷ δὲ τῷ τούτου ἀδελφῷ τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην ἐγχειρίσας ὑποφόρους ἔταξε Ῥωμαίοις Ἰουδαίους. Καὶ Κικέρων ὁ ῥήτωρ καὶ συγκλητικὸς παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἤκμαζεν. οὗτος καθεῖλε Κάτελλον καὶ Κέθηγον καὶ Λέντουλλον συνομοσαμένους κατὰ τῆς συγκλήτου. Πομπήιος ἐλθὼν εἰς Ῥώμην καὶ θριαμβεύσας ἐπὶ νίκαις πολλαῖς αὐτο κράτωρ ἀνηγορεύθη καὶ ἑνοῦται φιλίᾳ Γαΐῳ Ἰουλίῳ Καίσαρι καὶ γαμβρὸς ἐπὶ θυγατρὶ Ἰουλίᾳ γίνεται. ὁ δὲ Γάιος χειροτονηθεὶς κατὰ Γάλλων καὶ Βρεττανῶν στρατηγὸς ἐκπέμπεται, μεγάλαις μάχαις ἐν ἔτεσι δέκα Γάλ λους καὶ Βρεττανοὺς Ῥωμαίοις ὑποτελεῖς καταστήσας, φʹ πόλεις κατέχον τας, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Πλούταρχος ὁ Χερρωνεὺς φιλόσοφος. Ἀλέξανδρος υἱὸς Ἀριστοβούλου πρεσβύτερος διαδρὰς τὸν Πομπήιον εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ἔρχεται καὶ πρὸς βραχὺ κρατήσας πολλῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ 361 αὐτῆς τῆς ἀρχῆς ὑπὸ Γαβινίου καὶ Ἀντωνίου πολεμηθεὶς ἐκβάλλεται. παραλαμβάνει τε Ὑρκανὸς αὖθις τὴν κηδεμονίαν τοῦ ἱεροῦ, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην πολιτείαν ταῖς Ἀντιπάτρου συμβουλίαις διαιροῦσιν εἰς πέντε, τὸ πρῶτον μέρος Ἱεροσολύμοις ἀπονείμαντες, τὸ βʹ ∆ώροις, τὸ γʹ Ἀμαθοῦντι, τὸ δʹ Ἱεριχοῦντι, τὸ εʹ Σεπφωρίδι πόλει Γαλιλαίας. κἀκ τούτου τὸ λοιπὸν ἐδό κουν ἀριστοκρατικῶς ζῆν, εἰ μὴ φυγὼν ἐκ Ῥώμης ἦλθεν Ἀριστόβουλος σὺν Ἀντιγόνῳ νεωτέρῳ παιδί· καὶ πάλιν ἀρχὴ γέγονεν αὐτῷ θορύβων καὶ Ἰουδαίους πολλοὺς προσλαβόμενος καὶ τὸ φρούριον ἀνατειχίζειν τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐπειγόμενος. τάχιστα δὲ συλληφθεὶς ἐπὶ μάχῃ φεύγων σὺν τῷ υἱῷ, Γαβινίου στείλαντος ἐπ' αὐτὸν Σισένναν καὶ Ἀντώνιον καὶ Σερουια νὸν ἐν δυνάμει Ῥωμαϊκῇ, δεσμώτης αὖθις εἰς Ῥώμην ἀναπέμπεται. καὶ ἦν μόνος Ἀλέξανδρος ἐπὶ τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ποτὲ μὲν φεύγων Ῥωμαίους, ποτὲδὲ παρενοχλῶν Ὑρκανῷ καὶ Ἀντιπάτρῳ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν τῆς χώρας ὑπὸ Πομπηίου καὶ τῷ μετὰ ταῦτα πεπιστευμένῳ· ὃς ὑπὸ Γαβινίου πεμφθεὶς πολέμῳ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον τρέπεται, μυρίους ἀνελὼν τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους δισμυρίους φυγῇ σκεδάσας συμμαχούντων Ἰουδαίων περὶ τὸ Ἰταβύριον ὄρος. Τότε Κράσος διαδεξάμενος Γαβίνιον καὶ τὴν Συριακὴν παραλαβὼν ἀρ χὴν ἐπὶ Πάρθους ἤτοι Πέρσας στρατευσάμενος αὐθαιρέτως τὸν ἄλλον τοῦ ναοῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἅπαντα κόσμον ἐσύλησε καὶ τὰ δισχίλια τάλαντα ὧν ὁ Πομπήιος ἐφείσατο. διαβὰς δὲ τὸν ποταμὸν Εὐφράτην ὄλλυται σὺν τῷ πλήθει, Κασσίου ταμία τοῦ αὐτοῦ Κράσου τοὺς περισωθέντας ἀνακτη σαμένου καὶ τοὺς αὐτοὺς Πέρσας φόνῳ πολλῷ τῆς ὅλης