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Expedition of Bacchides and Alcimus

In the one hundred and fifty-first year[a] Demetrius son of Seleucus set out from Rome, sailed with a few men to a town by the sea, and there began to reign. As he was entering the royal palace of his ancestors, the army seized Antiochus and Lysias to bring them to him.

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  1. 1 Maccabees 7:1 161 bc

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