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NOW Herod's distemper became more and more severe to him, and this
because these his disorders fell upon him in his old age, and when he was
in a melancholy condition; for he was already seventy years of age, and
had been brought by the calamities that happened to him about his children,
whereby he had no pleasure in life, even when he was in health; the grief
also that Antipater was still alive aggravated his disease, whom he resolved
to put to death now not at random, but as soon as he should be well again,
and resolved to have him slain [in a public manner].
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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