Demetrid

English

Etymology

Demetrius +‎ -id

Noun

Demetrid (plural Demetrids)

1. (rare, historical) A descendant of the Seleucid king Demetrius I Soter.
   • 1968 [1964], Bo Reicke, translated by David E. Green, The New Testament Era: The World of the Bible from 500 B.C. to A.D. 100, →ISBN, page 65:

     The Seleuco-Demetrids were engaged in constant struggle with the Antiochids […]; each party found it necessary to guarantee the Jewish privileges.

   • 1998, Seán Freyne, Galilee from Alexander the Great to Hadrian, 323 B.C.E. to 135 C.E.: A Study of Second Temple Judaism, →ISBN, page 40:

     In effect Jonathan became an official of the Seleucid administration and we catch a glimpse of the growing independence of his position in the various tax concessions that the Demetrids were prepared to grant him.

   • 2013, Chris Seeman, Rome and Judea in Transition: Hasmonean Relations with the Roman Republic and the Evolution of the High Priesthood, →ISBN, page 178:

     Whoever this “Antiochus Epiphanes” was, he was swiftly superseded by another claimant introduced onto the playing board by Euergetes at the invitation of an anti-Demetrid faction in Syria.