Judæa

, a famous country of As syria, bounded by Arabia, Egypt, Phœnicia, the Mediterranean sea, and part of Syria. The inhabitants, whose history is best collected from the Holy Scriptures, were chiefly governed after their Babylonish captivity by the high priests, who raised themselves to the rank of princes, B.C. 153, and continued in the enjoyment of regal power till the age of August us. Plutarch , de Iside et Osiride .— Strabo , bk. 16 .— Dio Ca ius , bk. 36 .— Tacitus , Histories , bk. 5 , ch. 6 .— Lucan , bk. 2 , li. 593 .