From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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<strong>Josephus</strong>, has coins still remaining, as Spanheim here informs us.<br />
2. This way <strong>of</strong> speaking, "after forty days," is interpreted <strong>by</strong> <strong>Josephus</strong><br />
himself, "on <strong>the</strong> fortieth day," Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 15. sect. 4. In like<br />
manner, when <strong>Josephus</strong> says, ch. 33. sect. 8, that <strong>Herod</strong> lived "after" he<br />
had ordered Antipater <strong>to</strong> be slain "five days;" this is <strong>by</strong> himself<br />
interpreted, Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 8. sect. 1, that he died "on <strong>the</strong> fifth day<br />
afterward." So also what is in this book, ch. 13. sect. 1, "after two<br />
years," is, Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 13. sect. 3, "on <strong>the</strong> second year." And<br />
Dean Aldrich here notes that this way <strong>of</strong> speaking is familiar <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>Josephus</strong>.<br />
3. This Samosata, <strong>the</strong> metropolis <strong>of</strong> Commagena, is well known from its<br />
coins, as Spanheim here assures us. Dean Aldrich also confirms what<br />
<strong>Josephus</strong> here notes, that <strong>Herod</strong> was a great means <strong>of</strong> taking <strong>the</strong> city <strong>by</strong><br />
An<strong>to</strong>ny, and that from Plutarch and Dio.<br />
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