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However, after this, there came a hundred of the principal men among
the Jews to Daphne by Antioch to Antony, who was already in love with Cleopatra
to the degree of slavery; these Jews put those men that were the most potent,
both in dignity and eloquence, foremost, and accused the brethren. 1
But Messala opposed them, and defended the brethren, and that while Hyrcanus
stood by him, on account of his relation to them. When Antony had heard
both sides, he asked Hyrcanus which party was the fittest to govern, who
replied that Herod and his party were the fittest. Antony was glad of that
answer, for he had been formerly treated in an hospitable and obliging
manner by his father Antipater, when he marched into Judea with Gabinius;
so he constituted the brethren tetrarchs, and committed to them the government
of Judea.
1 Phasaelus and Herod.
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