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Alexander (V)

V. Alexander, the Son of Jason, was sent to Rome to renew the Friendship and Alliance that there was between the Jews and Romans. He is named in the Decree of the Senate which was directed to the Jews in the ninth year of Hircanus’s Pontificate, Æra 69.1 in the year of the World 3935, before J. C. 65, before the vulgar Æra 69.

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  1. Antiq. l. 14. c. 16. ↩

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