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In addition to this, he undertook to assign one hundred fifty more, if it might be allowed him through the king’s authority to set him up a gymnasium and a body of youths to be trained in it, and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch.
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Verse 9. Youth, under fourteen, to exercise. Vitruv. verse 11.—Men did the like naked in the gymnasium, as women did apart at Lacedemon. Jason wished to make his countrymen adopt the pagan customs, which tended to corrupt their morals. verse 12. Calmet.—Antiochians, to please the vanity of Antiochus, (Serar.) or that they might enjoy the like privileges. Salien. Menochius.
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