[B-Greek] Antipas as "king"
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 20 15:02:25 EDT 2007
On Apr 20, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
> In the BDAG entry on BASILEUS I see the following:
>
> Herod Antipas (not really a king [Jos., Ant. 17, 188; Dit., Or. 416;
> 417], but occasionally given that title: Cicero, Verr. 4, 27)
>
> However, when I've looked at the Cicero text cited here, I do not
> find
> any such appellation as BDAG says is to be found there. Indeed, I
> don't
> seem to find a reference to Antipas, let alone to Antipas as
> BASILEUS/Rex, in the entirety of In Verr.
>
> Am I missing something? Or is BDAG in error here?
Cicero's prosecution of Verres took place, as I recall, in 70 B.C. How
he might have commented on Herod Antipas at that point escapes me.
I think there must be an error in the reference in BDAg.
Carl W. Conrad
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