THEOSISJerome of Stridon
At the conclusion of the years, they will form a covenant among themselves, or as Theodotion renders it: they will intermingle. The daughter of the ruler of the south will approach the king of the north to create an alliance; however, she will not possess authority, nor will her offspring endure, for both she and the young men who accompanied her, alongside those who supported her during that era, will ultimately face betrayal. The initial ruler in Syria was Seleucus, known as Nicanor; the next was Antiochus, referred to as Soter; and then another Antiochus, known as the Divine. He engaged in many conflicts against Ptolemy Philadelphus, the second king of Egypt, rallying all the forces of Babylon and the East.
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Longing to conclude the protracted warfare, Ptolemy Philadelphus bestowed his daughter, named Verenice, upon Antiochus, who, from his first wife, Laodice, had two sons: Seleucus, known as Callinicus, and another Antiochus. He escorted her to Pelusium and provided her with substantial gifts of gold and silver under the guise of a dowry, thus earning the title Θορνοφόρος, meaning the one who brings a dowry. However, Antiochus, despite claiming he would share royal authority with Verenice and regarding Laodice merely as a concubine, later reinstated Laodice and her children in the palace. Concerned that her husband might not return Verenice, she conspired with her servants to poison him; she also commanded that Ikadion and Gennaeus, who ruled in Antioch, be killed, placing her eldest son Seleucus Callinicus as king in his father’s stead. Consequently, it is said: after many years, Ptolemy Philadelphus and Antiochus Θεὺς will forge a friendship, and the daughter of the southern king, Ptolemy, will approach the king of the north, Antiochus, to facilitate goodwill between her father and her spouse. It will not be possible, as he declares, for her to endure nor for her lineage to survive in the Syrian realm; both Verenice herself and those who brought her will meet their demise. Furthermore, King Antiochus, who aided her, will also perish, having been poisoned by his wife.