Their government was feeble and corrupt. The attempt to check the Jewish rebellion ended in a weak compromise. Their subservience to Rome so enraged the Greek cities of Syria that the Roman envoy Graeus Octavius[?] (consul 165 BC) was assassinated in Laodicea[?] (162). At this juncture Demetrius, the son of Seleucus IV, escaped from Rome and was received in Syria as the true king.
Antiochus Eupator was put to death.
Preceded by: Antiochus IV Epiphanes | Seleucid dynasty |
Succeeded by: Demetrius I Soter |
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