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Now two years afterward, when Barzapharnes, a governor among the
Parthians, and Paeorus, the king's son, had possessed themselves of Syria,
and when Lysanias had already succeeded upon the death of his father Ptolemy,
the son of Menneus, in the government [of Chalcis], he prevailed with the
governor, by a promise of a thousand talents, and five hundred women, to
bring back Antigonus to his kingdom, and to turn Hyrcanus out of it. Pacorus
was by these means induced so to do, and marched along the sea-coast, while
he ordered Barzapharnes to fall upon the Jews as he went along the Mediterranean
part of the country; but of the maritime people, the Tyrians would not
receive Pacorus, although those of Ptolemais and Sidon had received him;
so he committed a troop of his horse to a certain cup-bearer belonging
to the royal family, of his own name [Pacorus], and gave him orders to
march into Judea, in order to learn the state of affairs among their enemies,
and to help Antigonus when he should want his assistance.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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