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Now when at the evening Herod had already dismissed his friends to
refresh themselves after their fatigue, and when he was gone himself, while
he was still hot in his armor, like a common soldier, to bathe himself,
and had but one servant that attended him, and before he was gotten into
the bath, one of the enemies met him in the face with a sword in his hand,
and then a second, and then a third, and after that more of them; these
were men who had run away out of the battle into the bath in their armor,
and they had lain there for some time in, great terror, and in privacy;
and when they saw the king, they trembled for fear, and ran by him in a
flight, although he was naked, and endeavored to get off into the public
road. Now there was by chance nobody else at hand that might seize upon
these men; and for Herod, he was contented to have come to no harm himself,
so that they all got away in safety.
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