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However, nothing could be sufficient for him against the force of
Herod, who, as soon as he was recovered, took the other fortresses again,
and drove him out of Masada in the posture of a supplicant; he also drove
away Marion, the tyrant of the Tyrians, out of Galilee, when he had already
possessed himself of three fortified places; but as to those Tyrians whom
he had caught, he preserved them all alive; nay, some of them he gave presents
to, and so sent them away, and thereby procured good-will to himself from
the city, and hatred to the tyrant. Marion had indeed obtained that tyrannical
power of Cassius, who set tyrants over all Syria 1
and out of hatred to Herod it was that he assisted Antigonus, the son of
Aristobulus, and principally on Fabius's account, whom Antigonus had made
his assistant by money, and had him accordingly on his side when he made
his descent; but it was Ptolemy, the kinsman of Antigonus, that supplied
all that he wanted.
1 Here we see that Cassius set tyrants over all Syria; so that his assisting to destroy Caesar does not seem to have proceeded from his true zeal for public liberty, but from a desire to be a tyrant himself.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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