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Octavius Sebastos, whom the Romans call Augustus, being his adopted son, having returned to Rome from Apollonia of Epirus, where he was being educated, took hold of the supreme power. But Antony later obtained the rule of Asia and beyond. Before him the Jews accused Herod. But he, having killed the ambassadors, brought Herod back to his own rule. But later, along with Hyrcanus and his brother Phasael, he was driven out, and taking refuge with Antony, he returned. But with the Jews not receiving him, a fierce battle took place. And not long after, he drives out Antigonus, who was coming down, by battle, But Antigonus, having fled to Herod, the king of the Parthians, returned through his son Pacorus for a thousand talents of gold. And Herod flees, and Phasael is killed in the battle, and Hyrcanus was handed over to Antigonus alive; and he gave him to the Parthians to lead away, having cut off his ears, so that he might no longer be a priest; for he was ashamed to kill him as a kinsman. And Herod, having been driven out, at first flees to Malichus, the king of the Arabs; but when he did not receive him for fear of the Parthians, he departed to Alexandria to Cleopatra. It was the 185th Olympiad. Cleopatra, having killed her brother who reigned with her, having been summoned to Cilicia by Antony for a defense, entrusted the care of the kingdom to Herod, and since he thought nothing was trustworthy until he should be brought back to his own rule, she took him and went to Antony. And since he had been captured by love for the woman, he sent Herod to Rome to Sebastos Octavius, who, both on account of Antipater, Herod's father, and on account of Herod himself, and on account of Antigonus having been established as king by the Parthians, wrote to the generals in Palestine and Syria to restore him to his rule. and together with Sosius he waged war against Antigonus for a long time and with various battles. Then also Joseph, the brother of Herod, dies while serving as general. And when Herod had come to Antony, for three years they besieged Antigonus and brought him alive to Antony. 372 And Antony himself also proclaimed Herod king, and he added to him the cities of Hippos, Gadara, Gaza, Joppa, Anthedon, and of Arabia, Trachonitis and Auranitis and Sakia and Gaulanitis, and in addition, the procuratorship of Syria. Herod was proclaimed king of the Jews by the senate and Octavius Sebastos and reigned for 34 years. Antony, intending to campaign against the Parthians, killed Antigonus the king of the Jews and handed over Arabia to Cleopatra, and having crossed over against the Parthians, he failed greatly, having lost the greater part of his army. It was the 186th Olympiad. Sebastos Octavius was leading the force from Italy and the whole west against Antony, who did not want to return to Rome for fear of the failures in Parthia and out of love for Cleopatra. And Antony, on the other hand, having the force from Asia, went to meet him. And Herod, being shrewd and a courtier of the powerful, sent out double letters and the army by ship, having instructed the leaders to watch for the outcome. And when the victory was decided and Antony, defeated in two naval battles, fled to Egypt with Cleopatra, those who were carrying them delivered the letters to Sebastos, having hidden the ones they had for Antony. But Herod attacks Cleopatra; in the mausoleum she killed herself with an asp, using the beast as a weapon against herself. Then Sebastos captured Cleopatra's children Helios and Selene, who had fled to the Thebaid. Nicopolis near Actium was founded and the Actian games were established. After Alexandria was taken, Cornelius Gallus is sent as the first governor of Egypt, who subdued the cities of the revolting Egyptians. Until this time the Lagids, and the whole of the Macedonian hegemony after 298 years from the overthrow of the Persians. The times are therefore reckoned from the beginning and end of the Macedonian rule under the Ptolemies and the last Cleopatra, which comes to the 11th year of the Roman monarchy, and the 4th year of the 187th Olympiad, the total being

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Ὀκταούιος ὁ Σεβαστός, ὃν Αὔγουστον καλοῦσι Ῥωμαῖοι, θετὸς ὢν υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ Ἀπολλωνιάδος τῆς Ἠπείρου, ἔνθα ἐπαιδεύετο, εἰς Ῥώμηνἐπανελθὼν τῶν ἐν τέλει τῆς ἡγεμονίας εἴχετο. Ἀντώνιος δὲ ὕστερον τὴν τῆς Ἀσίας καὶ ἐπέκεινα ἀρχὴν ἔλαχεν. ἐπὶ τούτου Ἡρώδου κατηγόρουν Ἰουδαῖοι. ὁ δὲ τοὺς πρέσβεις ἀποκτείνας Ἡρώδην ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ κατῆξεν ἀρχήν. ὕστερον δὲ ἅμα Ὑρκανῷ καὶ Φασαΐλῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ ἐξεώθη καὶ προσφυγὼν Ἀντωνίῳ κατῆλθε. μὴ δεχομένων δὲ αὐτὸν Ἰουδαίων μάχη γίνεται καρτερά. μετ' οὐ πολὺ δὲ καὶ Ἀντίγονον κατιόντα ἐκδιώκει μάχῃ, Ἀντίγονος δὲ προσφυγὼν Ἡρώδῃ τῷ τῶν Πάρθων βασιλεῖ διὰ Πακόρου τοῦ υἱοῦ κατῆλθεν ἐπὶ χρυσοῦ ταλάντοις χιλίοις. καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἡρώδης φεύ γει, Φασάιλος δὲ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ ἀναιρεῖται, Ὑρκανὸς δὲ Ἀντιγόνῳ παρεδόθη ζῶν· ὁ δὲ Πάρθοις αὐτὸν ἔδωκεν ἄγειν, ἀποτεμὼν αὐτοῦ τὰ ὦτα, ὡς μηκ έτι ἱερῷτο· ᾐδέσθη γὰρ αὐτὸν ὡς οἰκεῖον ἀποκτεῖναι. Ἡρώδης δὲ ἐκ πεσὼν τὸ μὲν πρῶτον Μαλίχῳ τῷ τῶν Ἀράβων βασιλεῖ προσφεύγει· ὡς δ' οὐ προσήκατο αὐτὸν φόβῳ τῶν Πάρθων, εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν παρὰ Κλεο πάτραν ἀπῆλθεν. ἦν ὀλυμπιὰς ρπεʹ. Κλεοπάτρα τὸν συμβασιλεύσαντα αὐτῇ ἀδελφὸν ἀποκτείνασα πρὸς ἀπολογίαν ὑπ' Ἀντωνίου εἰς Κιλικίαν μεταπεμφθεῖσα τὴν τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐπιμέλειαν ἐπέτρεψεν Ἡρώδῃ, καὶ ὡς οὐδὲν ἠξίου πιστεύεσθαι ἔστ' ἂν καταχθῇ εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἀρχήν, ἔχουσα αὐτὸν ᾔει παρὰ Ἀντώνιον. ὡς δὲ ἁλώκει τῆς γυναικὸς ἔρωτι, τὸν Ἡρώδην ἀπέστειλεν εἰς Ῥώμην κατὰ τὸν Σεβαστὸν Ὀκταούιον, ὃς διά τε Ἀντίπατρον τὸνἩρώδου πατέρα καὶ δι' αὐτὸν Ἡρώδην διά τε τὸ ὑπὸ Πάρθων καθεστάσθαι τὸν Ἀντίγονον βασιλέα ἐπέστειλε τοῖς ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ καὶ Συρίᾳ στρατηγοῖς κατάγειν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀρχήν. καὶ ἅμα Σωσίῳ διεπολέμει πρὸς τὸν Ἀντί γονον χρόνῳ πολλῷ καὶ παντοίαις μάχαις. τότε καὶ Ἰώσηππος ἀδελφὸς Ἡρώδου ἀποθνήσκει στρατηγῶν. Ἡρώδου δὲ πρὸς Ἀντώνιον ἐλθόντοςτρία ἔτη τὸν Ἀντίγονον ἐξεπολιόρκησαν καὶ ζῶντα ἀπεκόμισαν Ἀντωνίῳ. 372 Ἀντώνιος δὲ Ἡρώδην μὲν καὶ αὐτὸς ἀνηγόρευσε βασιλέα, προσέθηκε δὲ αὐτῷ πόλεις Ἵππον, Γάδαρα, Γάζαν, Ἰόππην, Ἀνθηδόνα καὶ τῆς Ἀρβίας τόν τε Τράχωνα καὶ τὴν Αὐρανῖτιν καὶ Σακίαν καὶ Γαυλάνην, πρὸς δὲ καὶ τῆς Συρίας ἐπιτροπήν. Ἡρώδης ὑπὸ τῆς συγκλήτου καὶ Ὀκταουίου τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ βασιλεὺς Ἰουδαίων ἀνηγορεύθη καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη λδʹ. Ἀντώνιος ἐπὶ Πάρθους στρατεύειν μέλλων Ἀντίγονον τὸν Ἰουδαίων ἀπέκτεινε βασιλέα καὶ Ἀραβίαν Κλεοπάτρᾳ παρέδωκε, διαβάς τε ἐπὶ Πάρθους ἔπταισε μεγάλως τὸ πλεῖστον ἀποβαλὼν τοῦ στρατοῦ. ἦν ὀλυμπιὰς ρπςʹ. Ὁ Σεβαστὸς Ὀκταούιος τὴν ἐξ Ἰταλίας καὶ πάσης ἑσπέρας δύναμιν ἐπ' Ἀντώνιον ἦγεν, οὐ βουλόμενον εἰς Ῥώμην ἐπανελθεῖν δέει τῶν ἐν Πάρθοις ἐπταισμένων καὶ Κλεοπάτρας ἔρωτι. Ἀντώνιος δὲ αὖ τὴν ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας ἔχων δύναμιν ὑπηντίαζεν. ὁ δὲ Ἡρώδης οἷα δεινὸς καὶ τῶν ἰσχυόντων θεραπευτὴς διπλᾶς ἐξέπεμψεν ἐπιστολὰς καὶ νηὶ τὸν στρατόν, ἐντει λάμενος τοῖς ἡγουμένοις καραδοκεῖν τὸ ἀποβησόμενον. ὡς δ' ἐκρίθη τε ἡ νίκη καὶ δυσὶ ναυμαχίαις ἡττηθεὶς ὁ Ἀντώνιος ἔφυγεν εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἅμα τῇ Κλεοπάτρᾳ, οἱ κομίζοντες ἀπέδοσαν τὰς πρὸς τὸν Σεβαστὸν ἐπιστολάς, ἃς πρὸς Ἀντώνιον εἶχον ἀποκρύψαντες. ἐπιπίπτει δὲ Ἡρώδης Κλεοπάτρᾳ· ἐν τῷ μεσαιολίῳ ἑαυτὴν διεχρήσατο ἀσπίδι τῷ θηρίῳ καθ' ἑαυτῆς ὅπλῳ χρησαμένη. τότε Κλεοπάτρας υἱοὺς Ἥλιον καὶ Σελήνην ἐπὶ Θηβαΐδα φυγόντας συνέλαβεν ὁ Σεβαστός. Νικόπολις ἡ κατὰ Ἀκτίαν ἐκτίσθη καὶ Ἄκτια ὁ ἀγὼν ἐτέθη. Ἀλεξανδρείας εἰλημμένης πρῶτος ἡγεμὼν Αἰγύπτου πέμπεται Γάλλος Κορνήλιος, ὃς τῶν ἀποστάντων Αἰγυπτίων καθεῖλε τὰς πόλεις. μέχρι τοῦδε οἱ Λαγίδαι, καὶ σύμπας τῆς Μακεδονικῆς ἡγεμονίας μετὰ ἔτη τʹ τῆς Περσῶν καθαιρέσεως δυοῖν δέοντα. Συνάγονται τοίνυν οἱ χρόνοι ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς Μακεδόνων ἀρχῆς καὶ κατα λύσεως κατὰ Πτολεμαίους καὶ τὴν τελευταίαν Κλεοπάτραν, ὃ γίνεται τῆς Ῥωμαίων μοναρχίας ἡγεμονίας ἔτος ιαʹ, ὀλυμπιάδος δὲ ρπζʹ ἔτος δʹ, τὰ σύμπαντα