Albert d'Aix : cf. note p

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72. I. des Machabées : tlie name Maccnbaeus was thc surname of

Judas, one of ihe sons of Mattathias, and was given to the wholc family. The history of the Maccabees occupies a place bctwecn the Old and New Testaments. Tliey waged war against the .Syrians on account of the persécution of Antiochus Epiphanes from 170 B.C. The full histoiy of this war is given in the books of the Maccabees in the Apocrypha. Modin, their native cit\', contained their ancestral .sepulchre. It was the scène of two of their most famous victories. Its site is not e.xactly known, probably near Lvdda, in which case the Crusaders would hâve passed it before reaching Anathot.

3. la vallée de Térébinthe, or thc valley of Elah ; four miles

to the north-west of Jérusalem is the traditional (?) valle)'. The turpentine grows plentifully there ; cf. Isaiah and Jeremiah. Much of Michaud's topography is wrong. 6. Goliath : cf. r Samuel xvii.

,. 16. le moine Robert : cf. note p. 44, 1. 30.