1. Even Seleucus, king of Asia, paid from his own account for the expenses of the sacrificial services.

2. Seleucus was one of the Generals of Alexander and he ended up getting the part of his empire that had been Babylonia, that is modern day Iraq,and Syria.

3. Seleucus or Antiochus,so whenever you see the King of the North it refers to one of the Seleucids.

4. Seleucus was succeeded in 281 by Antiochus I Soter, who reigned until 261.

5. Seleucus gave up the eastern satrapies, and in return received a great number of elephants -five hundred, according to the ancient tradition- which made him invincible on the western front.

6. This may be Berenice because we know that she was a daughter of Antiochus or Seleucus, she was married to one of the Ptolemies.

7. But Gandara remained open to Greek influences and the successors of Chandragupta and Seleucus continued to exchange ambassadors.

8. In the hundred and fifty-first year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from the city of Rome, and came up with a few men into a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.