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[204] i. e. to Galba.

[205] She was the granddaughter of Herod the Great, and lived
with her brother, Herod Agrippa (cp. chap. 81), ruler of
Peraea. They heard St. Paul at Caesarea. She had married first
her uncle, Herod Agrippa, prince of Chalcis; then Polemo II,
king of Pontus, whom she left. She was known to have visited
Titus in Rome, and he was said to have promised her marriage.

[206] i. e. across the open sea.

[207] In Cyprus.

[208] Another mythical king of Cyprus.
Hesychius calls him a
son of Apollo, and Ovid makes him the father of Adonis.

[209] From the flight and cries of birds.

[210] i. e. the Tamiradae.

[211] i. e. a conical stone.

[212] Cp. v. 10.

[213] See i. 10 and 76.

[214] Reading _inexperti belli rubor_ (Andresen).

[215] Of Pontus, Syria, and Egypt.

[216] Antiochus of Commagene (between Syria and Cappadocia),
Agrippa of Peraea (east of Jordan), and Sohaemus of Sophene
(on the Upper Euphrates, round the sources of the Tigris).