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Hereupon king Herod distinguished the multitude that was in the city;
and for those that were of his side, he made them still more his friends
by the honors he conferred on them; but for those of Antigonus's party,
he slew them; and as his money ran low, he turned all the ornaments he
had into money, and sent it to Antony, and to those about him. Yet could
he not hereby purchase an exemption from all sufferings; for Antony was
now bewitched by his love to Cleopatra, and was entirely conquered by her
charms. Now Cleopatra had put to death all her kindred, till no one near
her in blood remained alive, and after that she fell a slaying those no
way related to her. So she calumniated the principal men among the Syrians
to Antony, and persuaded him to have them slain, that so she might easily
gain to be mistress of what they had; nay, she extended her avaricious
humor to the Jews and Arabians, and secretly labored to have Herod and
Malichus, the kings of both those nations, slain by his order.
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