Meaning of Demetrid | Babel Free

Definitions

A descendant of the Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter.

historical, rare

Examples

“The Seleuco-Demetrids were engaged in constant struggle with the Antiochids[…]; each party found it necessary to guarantee the Jewish privileges.”

“In effect Jonathan became an official of the Seleucid administration and we catch a glimpse of the growing independence of his position in the various tax concessions that the Demetrids were prepared to grant him.”

“Whoever this “Antiochus Epiphanes” was, he was swiftly superseded by another claimant introduced onto the playing board by Euergetes at the invitation of an anti-Demetrid faction in Syria.”

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