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1. His accession to the throne, or rather his usurpation of the sovereignty, a hundred and seventy-one years before the coming of Christ his attempt to plunder the temple of Diana at Ephesus his implacable hostility to the Jews his pollution of the Holy of Holies and his miserable death at Taba, after a tumultuous reign of eleven years, are circumstances of a prominent kind, and therefore more generally noticed by the historians of his time than the impious, dastardly, cruel, silly, and whimsical achievements which make up the sum total of his private life and reputation.