From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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11. This was <strong>the</strong> death <strong>of</strong> Phasaelus; but <strong>the</strong> Parthians, although <strong>the</strong>y had<br />
failed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> women <strong>the</strong>y chiefly desired, yet did <strong>the</strong>y put <strong>the</strong> government <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Jerusalem</strong> in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> hands <strong>of</strong> Antigonus, and <strong>to</strong>ok away Hyrcanus, and bound<br />
him, and carried him <strong>to</strong> Parthia.<br />
Footnotes:<br />
1. This large and noted wood, or woodland, belonging <strong>to</strong> Carmel, called<br />
apago <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> Septuagint, is mentioned in <strong>the</strong> Old Testament, 2 Kings<br />
19:23; Isaiah 37:24, and <strong>by</strong> I Strabo, B. XVI. p. 758, as both Aldrich and<br />
Spanheim here remark very pertinently.<br />
2. These accounts, both here and Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13. sect. 5, that <strong>the</strong><br />
Parthians fought chiefly on horseback, and that only some few <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
soldiers were free-men, perfectly agree with Trogus Pompeius, in Justin,<br />
B. XLI. 2, 3, as Dean Aldrich well observes on this place.<br />
3. Mariamac here, in <strong>the</strong> copies.<br />
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