68 George Dahl, 



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"As Antiochus was now come to Seleucia, and his forces 

 increased every day, he marched to fight Trypho; and having 

 beaten him in the battle, he ejected him out of Upper Syria into 

 Phenicia, and pursued him thither, and besieged him in Dora, 

 which was a fortress hard to be taken, whither he had fled. He 

 also sent ambassadors to Simon the Jewish high priest, about a 

 league of friendship and mutual assistance : who readily accepted 

 the invitation, and sent to Antiochus great sums of money and 

 provisions, for those that besieged Dora, and thereby supplied 

 them very plentifully, so that for a little while he was looked 

 upon as one of his most intimate friends: but Trypho fled from 

 Dora to Apamea, where he was taken during the siege, and put 

 to death, when he had reigned three years'." 



(In the following section Josephus relates that afterward Antio- 

 chus forgot the assistance Simon had rendered, and sent Cendebeus 

 to ravage Judea and seize Simon. Simon was able, however, to 

 defeat the forces sent against him. ) 



According to Josephus, then, the armies of Trypho and Antio- 

 chus Sidetes first fought a pitched battle in Upper Syria in which 

 Antiochus was victorious. Trypho then fled to Dor and was 

 besieged there. Contrary to the representation in 1 Maccabees 

 (where Sidetes refuses to accept Simon's voluntarily proffered gifts 

 and assistance), Josephus relates that the Syrian king requested 

 and gladly received from Simon both money and provisions. 

 Instead of following 1 Maccabees in* making Orthosia Trypho's 

 destination, Josephus names Apamea. He also adds the statement 

 that at Apamea Trypho was taken in a siege and put to death. 

 Still another statement of Trypho's destination is given by 

 Gharax'*, who says he fled to "Ptolemais, called Ake;" as 

 follows : 



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^ Following in general Margoliouth's revision of Whiston's translation. 



* Steph. Byz. (ed. Meineke, p. 254), s.v. Aupog; also in Miiller, Frag. hist, 

 grace. Ill, 644 n. 40. Cp. Fritzsche, I, 229. Charax probably lived during 

 the reign of Hadrian and the Antonines. 



