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But as he was in peril about Pamphylia, and obliged to cast out the
greatest part of the ship's lading, he with difficulty got safe to Rhodes,
a place which had been grievously harassed in the war with Cassius. He
was there received by his friends, Ptolemy and Sappinius; and although
he was then in want of money, he fitted up a three-decked ship of very
great magnitude, wherein he and his friends sailed to Brundusium, 1
and went thence to Rome with all speed; where he first of all went to Antony,
on account of the friendship his father had with him, and laid before him
the calamities of himself and his family; and that he had left his nearest
relations besieged in a fortress, and had sailed to him through a storm,
to make supplication to him for assistance.
1 This Brentesium or Brundusium has coin still preserved, on which is written, as Spanheim informs us.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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