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As the war that arose upon the death of Caesar was now begun, and
the principal men were all gone, some one way, and some another, to raise
armies, Cassius came from Rome into Syria, in order to receive the [army
that lay in the] camp at Apamia; and having raised the siege, he brought
over both Bassus and Marcus to his party. He then went over the cities,
and got together weapons and soldiers, and laid great taxes upon those
cities; and he chiefly oppressed Judea, and exacted of it seven hundred
talents: but Antipater, when he saw the state to be in so great consternation
and disorder, he divided the collection of that sum, and appointed his
two sons to gather it; and so that part of it was to be exacted by Malichus,
who was ill-disposed to him, and part by others. And because Herod did
exact what is required of him from Galilee before others, he was in the
greatest favor with Cassius; for he thought it a part of prudence to cultivate
a friendship with the Romans, and to gain their goodwill at the expense
of others; whereas the curators of the other cities, with their citizens,
were sold for slaves; and Cassius reduced four cities into a state of slavery,
the two most potent of which were Gophna and Emmaus; and, besides these,
Lydia and Thamna. Nay, Cassius was so very angry at Malichus, that he had
killed him, (for he assaulted him,) had not Hyrcanus, by the means of Antipater,
sent him a hundred talents of his own, and thereby pacified his anger against
him.
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