From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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<strong>to</strong>ok fifteen <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, and put <strong>the</strong>m in<strong>to</strong> cus<strong>to</strong>dy, whom he was also going <strong>to</strong><br />
kill presently, and <strong>the</strong> rest he drove away with disgrace; on which occasion a<br />
still greater tumult arose at <strong>Jerusalem</strong>; so <strong>the</strong>y sent again a thousand<br />
ambassadors <strong>to</strong> Tyre, where An<strong>to</strong>ny now abode, as he was marching <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>Jerusalem</strong>; upon <strong>the</strong>se men who made a clamor he sent out <strong>the</strong> governor <strong>of</strong><br />
Tyre, and ordered him <strong>to</strong> punish all that he could catch <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, and <strong>to</strong> settle<br />
those in <strong>the</strong> administration whom he had made tetrarchs.<br />
7. But before this <strong>Herod</strong>, and Hyrcanus went out upon <strong>the</strong> sea-shore, and<br />
earnestly desired <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se ambassadors that <strong>the</strong>y would nei<strong>the</strong>r bring ruin<br />
upon <strong>the</strong>mselves, nor war upon <strong>the</strong>ir native country, <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir rash<br />
contentions; and when <strong>the</strong>y grew still more outrageous, An<strong>to</strong>ny sent out<br />
armed men, and slew a great many, and wounded more <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m; <strong>of</strong> whom<br />
those that were slain were buried <strong>by</strong> Hyrcanus, as were <strong>the</strong> wounded put<br />
under <strong>the</strong> care <strong>of</strong> physicians <strong>by</strong> him; yet would not those that had escaped be<br />
quiet still, but put <strong>the</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> city in<strong>to</strong> such disorder, and so provoked<br />
An<strong>to</strong>ny, that he slew those whom he had in bonds also.<br />
Footnotes:<br />
1. Here we see that Cassius set tyrants over all Syria; so that his assisting <strong>to</strong><br />
destroy Caesar does not seem <strong>to</strong> have proceeded from his true zeal for<br />
public liberty, but from a desire <strong>to</strong> be a tyrant himself.<br />
2. Phasaelus and <strong>Herod</strong>.<br />
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