From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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Chapter 10<br />
Caesar Makes Antipater Procura<strong>to</strong>r <strong>of</strong> Judea<br />
1. About this time it was that Antigonus, <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus, came <strong>to</strong><br />
Caesar, and became, in a surprising manner, <strong>the</strong> occasion <strong>of</strong> Antipater's<br />
fur<strong>the</strong>r advancement; for whereas he ought <strong>to</strong> have lamented that his fa<strong>the</strong>r<br />
appeared <strong>to</strong> have been poisoned on account <strong>of</strong> his quarrels with Pompey, and<br />
<strong>to</strong> have complained <strong>of</strong> Scipio's barbarity <strong>to</strong>wards his bro<strong>the</strong>r, and not <strong>to</strong> mix<br />
any invidious passion when he was suing for mercy; besides those things, he<br />
came before Caesar, and accused Hyrcanus and Antipater, how <strong>the</strong>y had<br />
driven him and his brethren entirely out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir native country, and had<br />
acted in a great many instances unjustly and extravagantly with relation <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong>ir nation; and that as <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> assistance <strong>the</strong>y had sent him in<strong>to</strong> Egypt, it was<br />
not done out <strong>of</strong> good-will <strong>to</strong> him, but out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fear <strong>the</strong>y were in from<br />
former quarrels, and in order <strong>to</strong> gain pardon for <strong>the</strong>ir friendship <strong>to</strong> [his<br />
enemy] Pompey.<br />
2. Hereupon Antipater threw away his garments, and showed <strong>the</strong><br />
multitude <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> wounds he had, and said, that as <strong>to</strong> his good-will <strong>to</strong> Caesar,<br />
he had no occasion <strong>to</strong> say a word, because his body cried aloud, though he<br />
said nothing himself; that he wondered at Antigonus's boldness, while he was<br />
himself no o<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong> son <strong>of</strong> an enemy <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Romans, and <strong>of</strong> a fugitive,<br />
and had it <strong>by</strong> inheritance from his fa<strong>the</strong>r <strong>to</strong> be fond <strong>of</strong> innovations and<br />
seditions, that he should undertake <strong>to</strong> accuse o<strong>the</strong>r men before <strong>the</strong> Roman<br />
governor, and endeavor <strong>to</strong> gain some advantages <strong>to</strong> himself, when he ought<br />
<strong>to</strong> be contented that he was suffered <strong>to</strong> live; for that <strong>the</strong> reason <strong>of</strong> his desire<br />
<strong>of</strong> governing public affairs was not so much because he was in want <strong>of</strong> it, but<br />
because, if he could once obtain <strong>the</strong> same, he might stir up a sedition among<br />
<strong>the</strong> Jews, and use what he should gain from <strong>the</strong> Romans <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> disservice <strong>of</strong><br />
those that gave it him.<br />
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