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

Chapter 13
The Parthians Bring Antigonus Back Into Judea
1. Now two years afterward, when Barzapharnes, a governor among the
Parthians, and Paeorus, the king's son, had possessed themselves of Syria,
and when Lysanias had already succeeded upon the death of his father
Ptolemy, the son of Menneus, in the government [of Chalcis], he prevailed
with the governor, by a promise of a thousand talents, and five hundred
women, to bring back Antigonus to his kingdom, and to turn Hyrcanus out of
it. Pacorus was by these means induced so to do, and marched along the seacoast,
while he ordered Barzapharnes to fall upon the Jews as he went along
the Mediterranean part of the country; but of the maritime people, the
Tyrians would not receive Pacorus, although those of Ptolemais and Sidon
had received him; so he committed a troop of his horse to a certain cupbearer
belonging to the royal family, of his own name [Pacorus], and gave
him orders to march into Judea, in order to learn the state of affairs among
their enemies, and to help Antigonus when he should want his assistance.
2. Now as these men were ravaging Carmel, many of the Jews ran
together to Antigonus, and showed themselves ready to make an incursion
into the country; so he sent them before into that place called Drymus, [the
woodland (1) ] to seize upon the place; whereupon a battle was fought
between them, and they drove the enemy away, and pursued them, and ran
after them as far as Jerusalem, and as their numbers increased, they
proceeded as far as the king's palace; but as Hyrcanus and Phasaelus received
them with a strong body of men, there happened a battle in the market-place,
in which Herod's party beat the enemy, and shut them up in the temple, and
set sixty men in the houses adjoining as a guard to them. But the people that
were tumultuous against the brethren came in, and burnt those men; while
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