Soaemus
or SOHAEMUS.
1. King of Ituraea, received the kingdom from Caligula. On his death, which Tacitus places in A. D. 49, Ituraea was annexed by Claudius to the province of Syria (D. C. 59.12; Tac. Ann. 12.23.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.