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For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his friends who were with him, that they might take a large part of the treasures as a dowry.
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Verse 14. Dowry. Thus the pagans played with religion. Menochius.—Anthony having espoused the Minerva of Athens, required the city to give him 1000 talents for her portion. Dion. Seneca, suasov. 1.—Heliogabalus and Caligula pretended to marry the celestial Venus or the moon. Calmet.
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