See also:

• DEMETRIUS

DEMETRIUS II  . NICATOR (first reign 145-140) was a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere boy,' and the misgovernment of his Cretan supporters led to the See also:

• INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant son of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander Balas, See also:

• ANTIOCHUS

ANTIOCHUs VI . See also:

• DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus, being set up against him (145) by Tryphon, a See also:

• MAGNATE (Late Lat. magnas, a great man)

magnate of the 'See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom . See also:

• DEMETRIUS

Demetrius was driven from See also:

• ANTIOCH

Antioch and fixed his See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court in the neighbouring See also:

• SELEUCIA (Gr. EeXeimeta)

Seleucia . In 143 Tryphon murdered the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young Antiochus and assumed the diadem himself . Three years later Demetrius set off to reconquer the eastern provinces from the Parthians, leaving See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• CLEOPATRA

Cleopatra to maintain his cause in See also:

• SYRIA

Syria . When Demetrius was taken prisoner by the Parthians, his younger See also:

• BROTHER

brother ANTIOCHUS VII . SIDETES (164–129) appeared in Syria, married Cleopatra and crushed Tryphon . Antiochus VII. was the last strong ruler of the See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty (138-129) . He took See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem and once more brought the See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews, who had won their See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence under the Hasmonaean See also:

• FAMILY

family, to subjection (see See also:

• MACCABEES
• MACCABEES, BOOKS OF

MACCABEES) . He led a new expedition against the Parthians in 430, but, after See also:

• SIGNAL

signal successes, See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell fighting in 129 (see also See also:

• PERSIA

PERSIA, See also:

• HISTORY

History) . Demetrius (second reign 129–126), who had been allowed by the Parthians to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape, now returned to Syria, but was soon again driven from Antioch by a pretender, ALEXANDER ZABINAS, who had the support of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt .

Demetrius was murdered at the instigation of his wife Cleopatra in 126 . The remaining history of the dynasty is a wretched See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the struggle of different claimants, while the different factors of the kingdom, the cities and See also:

• BARBARIAN (Gr. fap/3apos)

barbarian races, more and more assert their independence . Both Demetrius II. and Antiochus VII. See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children by Cleopatra, who See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form See also:

• RIVAL

rival branches of the royal See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house . To the See also:

• LINE

line of Demetrius belong his son SELEUCUS V . (126), assassinated by his See also:

• MOTHER

mother Cleopatra, ANTIOCHUS VIII . GRYPUS (141–96), who succeeded in 126 the younger brother of Seleucus V., the sons of Grypus, SELEUCUS VI . EPIPHANES NICATOR (reigned 96-95), ANTIOCHUS XI . EPIPHANES PHILADELPHUS (reigned during 95), See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

PHILIP I . (reigned 95-83), DEMETRIUS III . EUKAIROS (reigned 95-88), and ANTIOCHUS XII . DIONYSUS EPIPHANES (reigned 86?-85?), and lastly PHILIP II., the son of Philip I., who appears momentarily on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage in the last days of confusion . To the line of Antiochus VII. belong his son ANTIOCHUS IX .

See also:

• CYZICENUS

CYZICENUS (reigned 116-95), the son of Cyzicenus, ANTIOCHUS X . EUSEBES (reigned 95-83?), and the son of Eusebes, ANTIOCHUS XIII . ASIATICUS (reigned 69-65) . In 83 See also:

• TIGRANES, or DIKRAN

Tigranes, the king of See also:

• ARMENIA (old Persian Armina, Armenian Hayasdan, or Hayq)

Armenia, invaded Syria, and by 69 his See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest had reached as far as Ptolemais, when he was obliged to evacuate Syria to defend his own kingdom from the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans . When See also:

• POMPEY

Pompey appeared in Syria in 64, Antiochus XIII. begged to be restored to his ancestral ' Some of the indications of our documents would make him older, and these are followed by Niese (iii. p . 276, See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note 5) . But in that See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case Demetrius I. must have already had a wife and son when he escaped from See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, and it seems to me highly improbable that such a material See also:

• FACTOR (from Lat. facere, to make or do)

factor in the situation would have been left out of See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account in See also:

• POLYBIUS (c. 204–122 B.C.)

Polybius's full narrative . After all, it is only a question of probabilities, and the difficulties of fitting a wife and See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child into the story seem to be very See also:

• GREAT

great, whether we conceive them left behind by Demetrius in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, or sent out of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country before him . kingdom or what shred was left of it . Pompey refused and made Syria a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province . Antiochus Grypus had given his daughter in See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage to See also:

• MITHRADATES

Mithradates (q.v.), a king of Commagene, and the subsequent See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of Commagene (see under ANTIOCHUS) claimed in consequence still to represent the Seleucid house after it had become See also:

• EXTINCT

extinct in the male line, and adopted Antiochus as the dynastic name . The kingdom was extinguished by Rome in 72 .

The son of the last king, See also:

• GAIUS

Gaius See also:

• JULIUS

Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus, was Roman See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul for A.D. too .