Demetrid

plural Demetrids

1. historicalrareA descendant of the Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter.

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

   1968 [1964], Bo Reicke, translated by David E. Green, The New Testament Era: The World of the Bible from 500 B.C. to A.D. 100, →ISBN, page 65

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   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.

   1998, Seán Freyne, Galilee from Alexander the Great to Hadrian, 323 B.C.E. to 135 C.E.: A Study of Second Temple Judaism, →ISBN, page 40

   Whoever this “Antiochus Epiphanes” was, he was swiftly superseded by another claimant introduced onto the playing board by Euergetes at the invitation of an anti-Demetrid faction in Syria.

   2013, Chris Seeman, Rome and Judea in Transition: Hasmonean Relations with the Roman Republic and the Evolution of the High Priesthood, →ISBN, page 178