Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ. Or, the trauels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, iudges, kings, our sauiour Christ, and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a description of the townes and places to which they trauelled, and how many English miles they stood from Ierusalem. Also a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantitie, and weight. Collected out of the workes of Henry Bunting, and done into English by R.B.

The Trauels of Demetrius Nicanor, the sonne of Demetrius Soter.

IN the 165 yeare of the gouernment of the Grecians in Syria, which was 141 yeares before Christ, Demetrius, syrnamed Nicanor, which signifies Victorre, sailed out of Creet into Cili∣cia, which was 600 miles, Ios. Ant. 13. c. 6. 1 Mac. 10.

Out of Cilicia he came into Syria the lower, 160 miles, where ioyning with Apolonius he tooke vpon him the crowne and King∣dom of Syria. Afterward Apolonius went into Iudaea with a great army, and besieged Iamnia. Ptolomeus Philometor also assisted the proceedings of Demetrius, seeing Alexander his son in law begin∣ning to decline; and the better to strengthen their allyance, mat∣ched him to Cleopatra his daughter, which before had bin wife to Alexander; by which policie he added to the kingdom of Egypt all Asia, ouer which he ruled 2 yeares, 1 Mac. 11.

After, Demetrius Nicanor came out of Siria the lower, with Pto∣lomeus Philometor, to Antiochia, which was 80 miles, 1 Mac. 11.

From Antiochia they went with their army to a plain neer the mountain Amanus, 120 miles; where in a sharpe war they ouer∣came Alexander and put him out of his kingdom, Ios. Ant. li. 3. c. 7.

Now after the death of Ptolomeus Philometor, Demetrius Nicanor

Nicanor returned to Antiochia, 120 miles, where he gouerned the kingdome of Syria two yeares.

From Antiochia he went to Ptolomais, which was 200 miles; to which place Ionathan the high priest came to meet him, where he gaue to him many presents and great gifts to win his fauour, 1 Mac. 11.

From Ptolomais he returned to Antiochia, 200 miles. There his soldiers and the city of Antiochia rebelled against him. For which cause Ionathan the high-priest sent him 3000 men, which deliuered the King out of danger, put to the sword 100000 of the seditious, and burnt the city of Antiochia, 1 Mac. 11. But af∣ter Demetrius shewed himselfe vnthankfull, hee was driuen out of his kingdome by Tryphon and yong Antiochus the sonne of King Alexander, who was also called Theos, which signifies God.

In the 172 yeare of the reigne of the Grecians in Syria, which was 138 before Christ, Nicanor hauing slaine Antiochus the son of Alexander, he would haue reigned alone in Syria: wherefore De∣metrius, who was the lawfull King of Syria, being 3 yeares before driuen thence, went 1200 miles into Media to craue aid against Tryphon: but Arsaces king of the Medes, Parthians, and Persians, sent the chiefe captain of his host against Demetrius, who burned his tents, tooke him prisoner, and caried him back to his master, to Hecatompylon the chiefe city of his kingdome, distant from Syria 1220 miles toward the East, Iustin. lib. 36. 38.

From Hecatompylon Arsaces sent him to Hyrcania the Me∣tropolitan city of that countrey, which was 176 miles; where al∣though Arsaces kept him as a prisoner, yet he allowed him royall attendance, and after maried him to his daughter, Iust. lib. 38.

After the death of Arsaces, with singular industry and policie he got out of captiuitie, after he had beene 12 yeares prisoner in Hyrcania, and came into Syria, which was 14 miles, where he re∣couered his kingdome, and reigned foure yeares. So all his Tra∣uels were 4156 miles.