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Hereupon Antony was moved to compassion at the change that had been
made in Herod's affairs, and this both upon his calling to mind how hospitably
he had been treated by Antipater, but more especially on account of Herod's
own virtue; so he then resolved to get him made king of the Jews, whom
he had himself formerly made tetrarch. The contest also that he had with
Antigonus was another inducement, and that of no less weight than the great
regard he had for Herod; for he looked upon Antigonus as a seditious person,
and an enemy of the Romans; and as for Caesar, Herod found him better prepared
than Antony, as remembering very fresh the wars he had gone through together
with his father, the hospitable treatment he had met with from him, and
the entire good-will he had showed to him; besides the activity which he
saw in Herod himself. So he called the senate together, wherein Messalas,
and after him Atratinus, produced Herod before them, and gave a full account
of the merits of his father, and his own good-will to the Romans. At the
same time they demonstrated that Antigonus was their enemy, not only because
he soon quarreled with them, but because he now overlooked the Romans,
and took the government by the means of the Parthians. These reasons greatly
moved the senate; at which juncture Antony came in, and told them that
it was for their advantage in the Parthian war that Herod should be king;
so they all gave their votes for it. And when the senate was separated,
Antony and Caesar went out, with Herod between them; while the consul and
the rest of the magistrates went before them, in order to offer sacrifices,
and to lay the decree in the Capitol. Antony also made a feast for Herod
on the first day of his reign.
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1 ANTIGONUS BESIEGES THOSE THAT WERE IN MASADA, WHOM HEROD FREES FROM CONFINEMENT WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM ROME, AND PRESENTLY MARCHES TO JERUSALEM WHERE HE FINDS SILO CORRUPTED BY BRIBES.
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