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He also built the other edifices, the amphitheater, and theater,
and market-place, in a manner agreeable to that denomination; and appointed
games every fifth year, and called them, in like manner, Caesar's Games;
and he first himself proposed the largest prizes upon the hundred ninety-second
olympiad; in which not only the victors themselves, but those that came
next to them, and even those that came in the third place, were partakers
of his royal bounty. He also rebuilt Anthedon, a city that lay on the coast,
and had been demolished in the wars, and named it Agrippeum. Moreover,
he had so very great a kindness for his friend Agrippa, that he had his
name engraved upon that gate which he had himself erected in the temple.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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