the sea-coast, Straton’s Tower,^a Apollonia,^b Joppa,^c Jamneia,^d Azotus,^e Gaza,^f Anthedon,^g Raphia^h and Rhinocoruraⁱ; in the interior, toward Idumaea, Adora^j and Marisa,^k and the whole of Idumaea and Samaria and Mount Carmel and Mount Tabor and Scythopolis^l and Gadara^m; in Gaulanitis they had Seleuciaⁿ and Gamala^o; and in Moab, Essebon,^p Medaba,^q Lemba,^r Oronaim,^s Agalain,^t Thona,^u Zoara,^v the Valley of the Cilicians^w and Pella^x––this last city Alexander’s men demolished because the inhabitants would not agree to adopt the national customs of the Jews—, and others of the principal cities of Syria which had been subdued.

(5) But after these conquests King Alexander fellAlexander Jannaeus on his deathbed advises his wife to make peace with the Pharisees. ill from heavy drinking, and for three years^y he was afflicted with a quartan fever, but still he did not give up campaigning until, being exhausted from his