the capital city of the land of Elam, or the ancient Persia. We are told (1 Mac. vi. 1.) that Antiochus Epiphanes, having understood that there were very great treasures lodged in a temple at Elymais, determined to go and plunder it; but the citizens getting intelligence of his design, made an insurrection, forced him out of the city, and obliged him to fly. The author of the second book of Maccabees (ix. 2.) calls this city Persepolis, in all probability because formerly it was the capital of Persia; for it is known from other accounts, that Persepolis and Elymais were two very different cities, the latter situated upon the Eulaeus, the former upon the Araxis.