From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus

Chapter 9
Antipater Cultivates a Friendship With Caesar
1. Now, upon the flight of Pompey and of the senate beyond the Ionian
Sea, Caesar got Rome and the empire under his power, and released
Aristobulus from his bonds. He also committed two legions to him, and sent
him in haste into Syria, as hoping that by his means he should easily conquer
that country, and the parts adjoining to Judea. But envy prevented any effect
of Aristobulus's alacrity, and the hopes of Caesar; for he was taken off by
poison given him by those of Pompey's party; and, for a long while, he had
not so much as a burial vouchsafed him in his own country; but his dead
body lay [above ground], preserved in honey, until it was sent to the Jews by
Antony, in order to be buried in the royal sepulchers.
2. His son Alexander also was beheaded by Sci-pio at Antioch, and that
by the command of Pompey, and upon an accusation laid against him before
his tribunal, for the mischiefs he had done to the Romans. But Ptolemy, the
son of Menneus, who was then ruler of Chalcis, under Libanus, took his
brethren to him by sending his son Philippio for them to Ascalon, who took
Antigonus, as well as his sisters, away from Aristobulus's wife, and brought
them to his father; and falling in love with the younger daughter, he married
her, and was afterwards slain by his father on her account; for Ptolemy
himself, after he had slain his son, married her, whose name was Alexandra;
on the account of which marriage he took the greater care of her brother and
sister.
3. Now, after Pompey was dead, Antipater changed sides, and cultivated
a friendship with Caesar. And since Mithridates of Pergamus, with the forces
he led against Egypt, was excluded from the avenues about Pelusium, and
was forced to stay at Asealon, he persuaded the Arabians, among whom he
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