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So the father drew Alexander as far as Rome, and. charged him with
an attempt of poisoning him before Caesar. Alexander could hardly speak
for lamentation; but having a judge that was more skillful than Antipater,
and more wise than Herod, he modestly avoided laying any imputation upon
his father, but with great strength of reason confuted the calumnies laid
against him; and when he had demonstrated the innocency of his brother,
who was in the like danger with himself, he at last bewailed the craftiness
of Antipater, and the disgrace they were under. He was enabled also to
justify himself, not only by a clear conscience, which he carried within
him, but by his eloquence; for he was a shrewd man in making speeches.
And upon his saying at last, that if his father objected this crime to
them, it was in his power to put them to death, he made all the audience
weep; and he brought Caesar to that pass, as to reject the accusations,
and to reconcile their father to them immediately. But the conditions of
this reconciliation were these, that they should in all things be obedient
to their father, and that he should have power to leave the kingdom to
which of them he pleased.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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