Antiochis

ANTIOCHIS, the Concubine of Antiochus Epiphanes, who gave her the Cities of Tarsus and Mallo, that she might make what use she pleased of the revenues of them. This disposal of these places by the King was received by the inhabitants of them as a mark of insupportable contempt. They took arms against Antiochus Epiphanes, who was obliged to march in person, in order to reduce them to obedience. 2 Macc.iv. 30.It was a custom with the Kings of Persia to give their Wives particular Cities, some for their table, some for their head-dress, some for their attire, and others for their girdles. Uxoribus attribuunt civitates hoc modo: Hæc civitas mulieri in redimiculum præbeat; hæc in collum; hæc in crines. Ita populos habent universos non solum conscios libidinis suæ, sed etiam administros, says Cicero¹.

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