[Steppes] Challenge

[Diane Rudin]

Greetings unto your Grace and all others reading these words.
Duchess Willow wrote:

> I think the Catholic Bible calls them Greeks So the information a 12th
> century person would have was that Judas Maccabbeus was fighting Greeks.

It is clear in my Douay, cross-referenced with my Vulgate, that Judas
Maccabbeus battled, and eventually was defeated by, the Syrians.  It is also
clear that they did not consider these the same as the Greeks; the Latin terms
are "Syriae" and "Graeciae".

I will check in the libraries at UTA and SMU tomorrow, to see if they have
facsimile copies of twelfth-century Bibles.

In my scanning the text, there is no mention of symbolism associated with the
Syrian army.  I will see if there is anything in the "Golden Legend".

--Serena

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