OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 4:12

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For he eagerly established a gymnasium under the citadel itself, and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat.

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Verse 12. Houses. Greek “he led them under the cap;” petasus, sacred to Mercury, or rather to Bacchus, and the emblem of liberty. Calmet.

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