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As these men said thus, and called upon Alexander's ghost for commiseration
of those already slain, and those in danger of it, all the bystanders brake
out into tears. But Aristobulus chiefly made manifest what were his sentiments,
and used. many reproachful expressions to his mother, [saying,] "Nay,
indeed, the case is this, that they have been themselves the authors of
their own calamities, who have permitted a woman who, against reason, was
mad with ambition, to reign over them, when there were sons in the flower
of their age fitter for it." So Alexandra, not knowing what to do
with any decency, committed the fortresses to them, all but Hyrcania, and
Alexandrium, and Macherus, where her principal treasures were. After a
little while also, she sent her son Aristobulus with an army to Damascus
against Ptolemy, who was called Menneus, who was such a bad neighbor to
the city; but he did nothing considerable there, and so returned home.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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