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WHEN after this Antony came into Syria, Cleopatra met him in Cilicia,
and brought him to fall in love with her. And there came now also a hundred
of the most potent of the Jews to accuse Herod and those about him, and
set the men of the greatest eloquence among them to speak. But Messala
contradicted them, on behalf of the young men, and all this in the presence
of Hyrcanus, who was Herod's father-in-law 1
already. When Antony had heard both sides at Daphne, he asked Hyrcanus
who they were that governed the nation best. He replied, Herod and his
friends. Hereupon Antony, by reason of the old hospitable friendship he
had made with his father [Antipater], at that time when he was with Gabinius,
he made both Herod and Phasaelus tetrarchs, and committed the public affairs
of the Jews to them, and wrote letters to that purpose. He also bound fifteen
of their adversaries, and was going to kill them, but that Herod obtained
their pardon.
1 We may here take notice that espousals alone were of old esteemed a sufficient foundation for affinity, Hyrcanus being here called father-in-law to Herod because his granddaughter Mariarune was betrothed to him, although the marriage was not completed till four years afterwards. See Matthew 1:16.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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