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[179]
And this was the fate of Hyrcanus; and thus did he end his life,
after he had endured various and manifold turns of fortune in his lifetime.
For he was made high priest of the Jewish nation in the beginning of his
mother Alexandra's reign, who held the government nine years; and when,
after his mother's death, he took the kingdom himself, and held it three
months, he lost it, by the means of his brother Aristobulus. He was then
restored by Pompey, and received all sorts of honor from him, and enjoyed
them forty years; but when he was again deprived by Antigonus, and was
maimed in his body, he was made a captive by the Parthians, and thence
returned home again after some time, on account of the hopes that Herod
had given him; none of which came to pass according to his expectation,
but he still conflicted with many misfortunes through the whole course
of his life; and, what was the heaviest calamity of all, as we have related
already, he came to an end which was undeserved by him. His character appeared
to be that of a man of a mild and moderate disposition, and suffered the
administration of affairs to be generally done by others under him. He
was averse to much meddling with the public, nor had shrewdness enough
to govern a kingdom. And both Antipater and Herod came to their greatness
by reason of his mildness; and at last he met with such an end from them
as was not agreeable either to justice or piety.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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