History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Coin ofScythopolis. The son of the friend of Caligula and Claudius. At the death of his father he hadreceived only a tetrarchy. Afterwards the Romans permitted him to assume the title of king. Agrippa, however, sent them soldiers. Astarte standing: bronze money of Nero, struck at Cœsarea. bearing the , near the harbour of Augustus. Herod, who had built this city in honour ofAugustus, had there a harbour as large aa that of the Pir^us, and protectedagainst the vio
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Coin ofScythopolis. The son of the friend of Caligula and Claudius. At the death of his father he hadreceived only a tetrarchy. Afterwards the Romans permitted him to assume the title of king. Agrippa, however, sent them soldiers. Astarte standing: bronze money of Nero, struck at Cœsarea. bearing the , near the harbour of Augustus. Herod, who had built this city in honour ofAugustus, had there a harbour as large aa that of the Pir^us, and protectedagainst the violence of the sea on the south-west by a breakwater of enormous blocks of stone,measuring as much as 50 feet in length, by 18 in width, and 9 in thickness. (Josephus, ^4??^Jud., XV. !>, <i. ) A woman with crenelated crown, erect, bearing in her right hand an undefined object ;money of Nysa 626 THE CESARS AND THE FLAYII, 14 TO 96 race.^ When the Jews of Palestine beheld the arrival anions; themof those who had escaped these massacres, they were convincedthat a plot had been formed to exterminate their race, and theinsurrection at Jerusalem spread throughout the entire the slaughter of the Jews in Syria that of the Greeks inPalestine was a retaliation. In Decapolis and Gaulonitis, at Phila-delphia, Heshbon, Gerasa, Pella, Anthedon, Gaza, etc., blood flowedin streams. The Greek population of Scythopolisfled, assisted by the Jews stationed among them^\ to repulse their co-religionists, and then mas-sacred the Jews. Meanwhile the governor of Syria, CestiusGallus, entered Judsea at the head of his reached Jerusalem in safety, and occupied,, . „,, the new city and the suburb of Bezetha. As- Coin ot « sailed, however, by an overwhelming populace,he was forced to make a precipitate retreat, in Avhich he lost 6,000men, his engines of war, and
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