Summary

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)

The expression was borrowed from Josephus by Luke, who wrongly imagined that Lysanias I. had ruled almost up to the time of the bestowal of his tetrarchy upon Agrippa, and therefore to the days of John the Baptist. Two inscriptions are adduced as evidence for the existence of a younger Lysanias—Böckh, C.I.G. 4521 and 4523. The former is inconclusive, and in the latter the reading Ανσ [ανιου] is entirely conjectural; the name might equally well be Lysimachus or Lysias.
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