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By this means Herod subdued these caves, and the robbers that were
in them. He then left there a part of his army, as many as he thought sufficient
to prevent any sedition, and made Ptolemy their general, and returned to
Samaria; he led also with him three thousand armed footmen, and six hundred
horsemen, against Antigonus. Now here those that used to raise tumults
in Galilee, having liberty so to do upon his departure, fell unexpectedly
upon Ptolemy, the general of his forces, and slew him; they also laid the
country waste, and then retired to the bogs, and to places not easily to
be found. But when Herod was informed of this insurrection, he came to
the assistance of the country immediately, and destroyed a great number
of the seditions, and raised the sieges of all those fortresses they had
besieged; he also exacted the tribute of a hundred talents of his enemies,
as a penalty for the mutations they had made in the country.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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