“Concerning this Demetrius, Pompeius Trogus recounts in his History as follows, saying: When Antiochus withdrew, having left a very young son, to whom guardians had been appointed by the people, his uncle Demetrius, who was a hostage at Rome, having learned of the death of his brother Antiochus, went to the Senate, say…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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1In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.
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— 1 Maccabees 7:1 —
2And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them unto him.
3Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.