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Hereupon Ptolemy blamed himself for having given his daughter in
marriage to Alexander, and for the league he had made with him to assist
him against Demetrius; so he dissolved his relation to him, and took his
daughter away from him, and immediately sent to Demetrius, and offered
to make a league of mutual assistance and friendship with him, and agreed
with him to give him his daughter in marriage, and to restore him to the
principality of his fathers. Demetrius was well pleased with this embassage,
and accepted of his assistance, and of the marriage of his daughter. But
Ptolemy had still one more hard task to do, and that was to persuade the
people of Antioch to receive Demetrius, because they were greatly displeased
at him, on account of the injuries his father Demetrius had done them;
yet did he bring this about; for as the people of Antioch hated Alexander
on Ammonius's account, as we have shown already, they were easily prevailed
with to cast him out of Antioch; who, thus expelled out of Antioch, came
into Cilicia. Ptolemy came then to Antioch, and was made king by its inhabitants,
and by the army; so that he was forced to put on two diadems, the one of
Asia, the other of Egypt: but being naturally a good and a righteous man,
and not desirous of what belonged to others, and besides these dispositions,
being also a wise man in reasoning about futurities, he determined to avoid
the envy of the Romans; so he called the people of Antioch together to
an assembly, and persuaded them to receive Demetrius; and assured them
that he would not be mindful of what they did to his father in case he
should he now obliged by them; and he undertook that he would himself be
a good monitor and governor to him, and promised that he would not permit
him to attempt any bad actions; but that, for his own part, he was contented
with the kingdom of Egypt. By which discourse he persuaded the people of
Antioch to receive Demetrius.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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