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SO when Varus had settled these affairs, and had placed the former
legion at Jerusalem, he returned back to Antioch; but as for Archelaus,
he had new sources of trouble come upon him at Rome, on the occasions following:
for an embassage of the Jews was come to Rome, Varus having permitted the
nation to send it, that they might petition for the liberty of living by
their own laws. 1
Now the number of the ambassadors that were sent by the authority of the
nation were fifty, to which they joined above eight thousand of the Jews
that were at Rome already. Hereupon Caesar assembled his friends, and the
chief men among the Romans, in the temple of Apollo, 2
which he had built at a vast charge; whither the ambassadors came, and
a multitude of the Jews that were there already came with them, as did
also Archelaus and his friends; but as for the several kinsmen which Archelaus
had, they would not join themselves with him, out of their hatred to him;
and yet they thought it too gross a thing for them to assist the ambassadors
[against him], as supposing it would be a disgrace to them in Caesar's
opinion to think of thus acting in opposition to a man of their own kindred.
Philip 3
also was come hither out of Syria, by the persuasion of Varus, with this
principal intention to assist his brother [Archelaus]; for Varus was his
great friend: but still so, that if there should any change happen in the
form of government, (which Varus suspected there would,) and if any distribution
should be made on account of the number that desired the liberty of living
by their own laws, that he might not be disappointed, but might have his
share in it.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TETRARCHA
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- LSJ, ἀπόστολ-ος
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