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Burgeoned then from the stock of Antiochus a poisoned growth, another Antiochus, he that was called the Illustrious. He had been formerly a hostage at Rome, but now, in the hundred and thirty-seventh year of the Grecian empire, he came into his kingdom. (1 Maccabees 1, 11)
It was now, in the hundred and fifty-first year, that Demetrius, the son of Seleu-cus, escaped from Rome and landed with a small retinue at one of the sea-ports, where he was proclaimed king. (1 Maccabees 7, 1)
So now Judas made choice of two envoys, Eupolemus, son of John, son of Jacob, and Jason, son of Eleazar; to Rome they should go, and there make a treaty of good will and alliance. (1 Maccabees 8, 17)
Rome’s task it should be to rid them of the Grecian yoke; from the Greeks it was plain they could expect nothing better than grinding slavery. (1 Maccabees 8, 18)
So, after long journeying, to Rome they came, and were admitted to the senate house, where they gave their message as follows: (1 Maccabees 8, 19)
For the needs of the enemy they shall nothing find or furnish, be it corn, or arms, or money, or ships, according to the agreement made at Rome; and they shall observe these undertakings with no thought of their own advantage. (1 Maccabees 8, 26)
providing neither corn nor arms, money nor ships, to any that take part against them, according to the agreement made at Rome;✻ and they shall observe these undertakings honourably. (1 Maccabees 8, 28)
To Rome, then, his messengers went, gained audience of the senate, and told how the high priest Jonathan and the Jewish people had sent them to renew their old treaty of friendship; (1 Maccabees 12, 3)
delegates of ours, Numenius son of Antiochus and Antipater son of Jason, are on their way to Rome, friendship and alliance of former days to confirm afresh; (1 Maccabees 12, 16)
To Rome, to Sparta itself, came tidings of Jonathan’s death, and was heard right sorrowfully. (1 Maccabees 14, 16)
Numenius was sent on a further mission to Rome, bearing a great target of gold, a thousand minas in weight, to renew the alliance there. And when all this reached the ears of the people …✻ (1 Maccabees 14, 24)
Here was Rome itself greeting the Jewish folk as allies, good friends, and kinsmen, welcoming the envoys of Simon with civic state. (1 Maccabees 14, 40)
