Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Antiochus the Third wrote to the cities that, if he should write ordering anything to be done contrary to the laws, they should pay no attention, assuming that he had acted in ignorance.

Seeing the priestess of Artemis surpassingly beautiful in her appearance, he straightway marched forth from Ephesus, [*](In 196 B.C., presumably, when he wintered in Ephesus (Livy, xxxiii. 38).) for fear that even against his determination he might be constrained to commit some unholy act.