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When Gabinius had taken care of these cities, he returned to Alexandrium,
and pressed on the siege. So when Alexander despaired of ever obtaining
the government, he sent ambassadors to him, and prayed him to forgive what
he had offended him in, and gave up to him the remaining fortresses, Hyrcanium
and Macherus, as he put Alexandrium into his hands afterwards; all which
Gabinius demolished, at the persuasion of Alexander's mother, that they
might not be receptacles of men in a second war. She was now there in order
to mollify Gabinius, out of her concern for her relations that were captives
at Rome, which were her husband and her other children. After this Gabinius
brought Hyrcanus to Jerusalem, and committed the care of the temple to
him; but ordained the other political government to be by an aristocracy.
He also parted the whole nation into five conventions, assigning one portion
to Jerusalem, another to Gadara, that another should belong to Amathus,
a fourth to Jericho, and to the fifth division was allotted Sepphoris,
a city of Galilee. So the people were glad to be thus freed from monarchical
government, and were governed for the future by all aristocracy.
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