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But these sons were not able to bear this change in their affairs;
but when they saw him that was born of a mother of no family, the nobility
of their birth made them unable to contain their indignation; but whensoever
they were uneasy, they showed the anger they had at it. And as these sons
did day after day improve in that their anger, Antipater already exercised
all his own abilities, which were very great, in flattering his father,
and in contriving many sorts of calumnies against his brethren, while he
told some stories of them himself, and put it upon other proper persons
to raise other stories against them, till at length he entirely cut his
brethren off from all hopes of succeeding to the kingdom; for he was already
publicly put into his father's will as his successor. Accordingly, he was
sent with royal ornaments, and other marks of royalty, to Caesar, excepting
the diadem. He was also able in time to introduce his mother again into
Mariamne's bed. The two sorts of weapons he made use of against his brethren
were flattery and calumny, whereby he brought matters privately to such
a pass, that the king had thoughts of putting his sons to death.
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