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NOW it so fell out, that about this very time the affairs of Syria
were in great disorder, and this on the occasion following: Cecilius Bassus,
one of Pompey's party, laid a treacherous design against Sextus Ceasar,
and slew him, and then took his army, and got the management of public
affairs into his own hand; so there arose a great war about Apamia, while
Ceasar's generals came against him with an army of horsemen and footmen;
to these Antipater also sent succors, and his sons with them, as calling
to mind the kindnesses they had received from Caesar, and on that account
he thought it but just to require punishment for him, and to take vengeance
on the man that had murdered him. And as the war was drawn out into a great
length, Marcus 1
came from Rome to take Sextus's government upon him. But Caesar was slain
by Cassius and Brutus in the senate-house, after he had retained the government
three years and six months. This fact however, is related elsewhere.
1 For Marcus, this president of Syria, sent as successor to Sextus Caesar, the Roman historians require us to read "Marcus" in Josephus, and this perpetually, both in these Antiquities, and in his History of the Wars, as the learned generally agree.
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