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Ariarathes

ARIARATHES, King of Cappadocia, Son of another Ariarathes. He, whom we are speaking of was forced out of his Dominions by Orophernes, and was afterwards restored by the Romans1, in the year of the world 3847. The Roman Senate wrote to him in favour of the Jews, about the year 3861. See 1 Macc. xv. 22.

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  1. Appian. Syriac. p. 118. Polyb. Legat. 126. ↩

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