Many lands did he conquer, and mighty kings did he subdue, burning their towers and palaces, and imprisoning their men.
(No king like unto him had arisen on the coastland of the Great Sea since the days of Alexander.)
And he built a great city by the bank of the river, as his capital, and called it Antioch, after his own name.
And Bagris his viceroy, also built a city equally great and called it Bagris after his name and so are they called to this day.
In the twenty and third year of his reign which was the two hundred and thirteenth year of the erection of the Sanctuary, he set his face towards Jerusalem.