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Sylleus also, the Arabian, sailed to Rome, without any regard to
Caesar's injunctions, and this in order to oppose Antipater with all his
might, as to that law-suit which Nicolaus had with him before. This Sylleus
had also a great contest with Aretas his own king; for he had slain many
others of Aretas's friends, and particularly Sohemus, the most potent man
in the city Petra. Moreover, he had prevailed with Phabatus, who was Herod's
steward, by giving him a great sum of money, to assist him against Herod;
but when Herod gave him more, he induced him to leave Syllcus, and by this
means he demanded of him all that Caesar had required of him to pay. But
when Sylleus paid nothing of what he was to pay, and did also accuse Phabatus
to Caesar, and said that he was not a steward for Caesar's advantage, but
for Herod's, Phabatus was angry at him on that account, but was still in
very great esteem with Herod, and discovered Sylleus's grand secrets, and
told the king that Sylleus had corrupted Corinthus, one of the guards of
his body, by bribing him, and of whom he must therefore have a care. Accordingly,
the king complied; for this Corinthus, though he was brought up in Herod's
kingdom, yet was he by birth an Arabian; so the king ordered him to be
taken up immediately, and not only him, but two other Arabians, who were
caught with him; the one of them was Sylleus's friend, the other the head
of a tribe. These last, being put to the torture, confessed that they had
prevailed with Corinthus, for a large sum of money, to kill Herod; and
when they had been further examined before Saturninus, the president of
Syria, they were sent to Rome.
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