History of Dor. 67 



him. 13. And Antioehus encamped against Dor and with him 

 were 120,000 warriors and 8000 horse', li. And he surrounded 

 the city, and the ships joined in the attack from the sea; and he 

 wori'ied the city by land and sea, and allowed no one to go out 

 or in." 



(Vv. 15-24 record the return of Numenius and the embassy which 

 Simon had sent to Rome.) 



25. "But Antioehus the King encamped against Dor on the 

 second (day)^, continually bringing his forces up to it, and making 

 engines of war, and he shut up Trypho so that he could neither go 

 in nor go out. 26. And Simon sent him 2000 picked men to fight 

 with him ; and silver and gold and many implements. 



27. And he would not receiA^e them, but set at naught all the 

 covenants he had made with him before, and was estranged from 

 him." 



(The king sends to Simon to demand a tribute of 500 silver 

 talents, and is enraged when this is refused: vv. 28-36.) 



37. "But Trypho embarked on a ship and fled to Orthosia." 



(Vv. 38, 39 a b: The king commands Cendebaeus to attack the 

 Jews.) 



39c. "But the king pursued Trypho." 



Josephus' account {Ant. XIII, 7 : 2) differs in several particulars 

 from that contained in 1 Maccabees^ 



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* Fritzsche, I, p. 227; Kautzsch, I, p. 78; Fairweather, j). 252;"VVace supplies 

 TTo'AiopKia, and translates "for the second time," or "in the second siege." 

 It is better to consider this a redactional resumption of the narrative of the 

 siege described in vv. 13, 14, which had been interrupted by the account of 

 the return of the embassy in vv. 15-24. 



3 Text from ed. Naber. . , . The parallel passage in B.J., I, 2:2 is much 

 briefer, mentioning simply Simon's assistance during Antioehus' siege of 

 Dor, and Antioehus' ingratitude afterward. Its source is the same as that 

 of the passage in Ant. 



