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And now Herod having overcome his enemies, his care was to govern
those foreigners who had been his assistants, for the crowd of strangers
rushed to see the temple, and the sacred things in the temple; but the
king, thinking a victory to be a more severe affliction than a defeat,
if any of those things which it was not lawful to see should be seen by
them, used entreaties and threatenings, and even sometimes force itself,
to restrain them. He also prohibited the ravage that was made in the city,
and many times asked Sosius whether the Romans would empty the city both
of money and men, and leave him king of a desert; and told him that he
esteemed the dominion over the whole habitable earth as by no means an
equivalent satisfaction for such a murder of his citizens'; and when he
said that this plunder was justly to be permitted the soldiers for the
siege they had undergone, he replied, that he would give every one their
reward out of his own money; and by this means be redeemed what remained
of the city from destruction; and he performed what he had promised him,
for he gave a noble present to every soldier, and a proportionable present
to their commanders, but a most royal present to Sosius himself, till they
all went away full of money.
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