makkabi

Updated: May 6, 2025

Through the devout and bold defence of the primitive Jewish national worship, which was imperilled by the levelling Hellenism of the Syrian kings, the family of the Hasmonaeans or the Makkabi had not only attained to their hereditary principality and gradually to kingly honours; but these princely high-priests had also spread their conquests to the north, east, and south.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

Through the devout and bold defence of the primitive Jewish national worship, which was imperilled by the levelling Hellenism of the Syrian kings, the family of the Hasmonaeans or the Makkabi had not only attained to their hereditary principality and gradually to kingly honours; but these princely high-priests had also spread their conquests to the north, east, and south.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy