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When the king had these intentions, he sent away Anileus, and Anileus
prevailed on his brother [to come to the king], when he had related to
him the king's good-will, and the oath that he had taken. Accordingly,
they made haste to go to Artsbanus, who received them when they were come
with pleasure, and admired Asineus's courage in the actions he had done,
and this because he was a little man to see to, and at first sight appeared
contemptible also, and such as one might deem a person of no value at all.
He also said to his friends, how, upon the comparison, he showed his soul
to be in all respects superior to his body; and when, as they were drinking
together, he once showed Asineus to Abdagases, one of the generals of his
army, and told him his name, and described the great courage he was of
in war, and Abdagases had desired leave to kill him, and thereby to inflict
on him a punishment for those injuries he had done to the Parthian government,
the king replied, "I will never give thee leave to kill a man who
hath depended on my faith, especially not after I have sent him my right
hand, and endeavored to gain his belief by oaths made by the gods. But
if thou be a truly warlike man, thou standest not in need of my perjury.
Go thou then, and avenge the Parthian government; attack this man, when
he is returned back, and conquer him by the forces that are under thy command,
without my privity." Hereupon the king called for Asineus, and said
to him, "It is time for thee, O thou young man! to return home, and
not provoke the indignation of my generals in this place any further, lest
they attempt to murder thee, and that without my approbation. I commit
to thee the country of Babylonia in trust, that it may, by thy care, be
preserved free from robbers, and from other mischiefs. I have kept my faith
inviolable to thee, and that not in trifling affairs, but in those that
concerned thy safety, and do therefore deserve thou shouldst be kind to
me." When he had said this, and given Asineus some presents, he sent
him away immediately; who, when he was come home, built fortresses, and
became great in a little time, and managed things with such courage and
success, as no other person, that had no higher a beginning, ever did before
him. Those Parthian governors also, who were sent that way, paid him great
respect; and the honor that was paid him by the Babylonians seemed to them
too small, and beneath his deserts, although he were in no small dignity
and power there; nay, indeed, all the affairs of Mesopotamia depended upon
him, and he more and more flourished in this happy condition of his for
fifteen years.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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