The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Antiochus III. the Great,King of Syria,B. C. 203. (See page? 600, 604.) Antiochus IV, Epiphanes,King of Syria,B. C. 170. (See pages 600, 601, 604, 605.). Cleopatra and Antiochus VIII., King and Qneen of Syria, (B. C. 123 to 96.) Antiochus Will, (surnamed Grypus) was called from Athens to ascend theSyrian throne, his mother, Cleopatra, imagining she could control her son, whowould be a puppet in her hands; and during the first years of his reign thisproved the case. Her effigy appears with his on the Syrian coins. Becomingj
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Antiochus III. the Great,King of Syria,B. C. 203. (See page? 600, 604.) Antiochus IV, Epiphanes,King of Syria,B. C. 170. (See pages 600, 601, 604, 605.). Cleopatra and Antiochus VIII., King and Qneen of Syria, (B. C. 123 to 96.) Antiochus Will, (surnamed Grypus) was called from Athens to ascend theSyrian throne, his mother, Cleopatra, imagining she could control her son, whowould be a puppet in her hands; and during the first years of his reign thisproved the case. Her effigy appears with his on the Syrian coins. Becomingjealous of his influence, Cleopatra attempted to poison him, when, upon discov-ering it, he compelled her to swallow the poisoned draught. The interminablecivil wars of the sons of Grypus, after that kings death, paved the way for theassumption of Tigranes (see effi-yy facing 601), and afterwards the reduction(B. C. 65) of Syria to a Roman province by Pompey (pages 601, 6<,5).
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