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When he had made this pompous declaration, he got Herod to remit
of his anger, though he were in disorder, who thereupon gave him the books
which Alexander had composed to be read by him; and as he came to every
head, he considered of it, together with Herod. So Archclaus took hence
the occasion for that stratagem which he made use of, and by degrees he
laid the blame on those men whose names were in these books, and especially
upon Pheroras; and when he saw that the king believed him [to he in earnest],
he said, "We must consider whether the young man be not himself plotted
against by such a number of wicked wretches, and not thou plotted against
by the young man; for I cannot see any occasion for his falling into so
horrid a crime, since he enjoys the advantages of royalty already, and
has the expectation of being one of thy successors; I mean this, unless
there were some persons that persuade him to it, and such persons as make
an ill use of the facility they know there is to persuade young men; for
by such persons, not only young men are sometimes imposed upon, but old
men also, and by them sometimes are the most illustrious families and kingdoms
overturned."
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