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Moreover, after the first games at Actium, he added to his kingdom
both the region called Trachonitis, and what lay in its neighborhood, Batanea,
and the country of Auranitis; and that on the following occasion: Zenodorus,
who had hired the house of Lysanias, had all along sent robbers out of
Trachonitis among the Damascenes; who thereupon had recourse to Varro,
the president of Syria, and desired of him that he would represent the
calamity they were in to Caesar. When Caesar was acquainted with it, he
sent back orders that this nest of robbers should be destroyed. Varro therefore
made an expedition against them, and cleared the land of those men, and
took it away from Zenodorus. Caesar did also afterward bestow it on Herod,
that it might not again become a receptacle for those robbers that had
come against Damascus. He also made him a procurator of all Syria, and
this on the tenth year afterward, when he came again into that province;
and this was so established, that the other procurators could not do any
thing in the administration without his advice: but when Zenodorus was
dead, Caesar bestowed on him all that land which lay between Trachonitis
and Galilee. Yet, what was still of more consequence to Herod, he was beloved
by Caesar next after Agrippa, and by Agrippa next after Caesar; whence
he arrived at a very great degree of felicity. Yet did the greatness of
his soul exceed it, and the main part of his magnanimity was extended to
the promotion of piety.
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1 OF THE [TEMPLE AND] CITIES THAT WERE BUILT BY HEROD AND ERECTED FROM THE VERY FOUNDATIONS; AS ALSO OF THOSE OTHER EDIFICES THAT WERE ERECTED BY HIM; AND WHAT MAGNIFICENCE HE SHOWED TO FOREIGNERS; AND HOW FORTUNE WAS IN ALL THINGS FAVORABLE TO HIM.
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