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SO Alexandra, when she had taken the fortress, acted as her husband
had suggested to her, and spake to the Pharisees, and put all things into
their power, both as to the dead body, and as to the affairs of the kingdom,
and thereby pacified their anger against Alexander, and made them bear
goodwill and friendship to him; who then came among the multitude, and
made speeches to them, and laid before them the actions of Alexander, and
told them that they had lost a righteous king; and by the commendation
they gave him, they brought them to grieve, and to be in heaviness for
him, so that he had a funeral more splendid than had any of the kings before
him. Alexander left behind him two sons, Hyrcanus and Aristobulus, but
committed the kingdom to Alexandra. Now, as to these two sons, Hyrcanus
was indeed unable to manage public affairs, and delighted rather in a quiet
life; but the younger, Aristobulus, was an active and a bold man; and for
this woman herself, Alexandra, she was loved by the multitude, because
she seemed displeased at the offenses her husband had been guilty of.
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