| Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. |
| The old Mesopotamian cities continued, as in the preceding period, their own life under the Seleucids. |
| The political division of the land into 19 or 20 small satrapies, which is found later, under the Parthians, began under the Seleucids. |
| This service had been interrupted by the Seleucids and all the oil in the Temple had been defiled. |
| It was already remarked that the Seleucids controlled their territory by a division in satrapies, eparchies and hipparchies. |
| Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
