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But Pompey did not give him time to make any preparations [for a
siege], but followed him at his heels; he was also obliged to make haste
in his attempt, by the death of Mithridates, of which he was informed about
Jericho. Now here is the most fruitful country of Judea, which bears a
vast number of palm trees 1
besides the balsam tree, whose sprouts they cut with sharp stones, and
at the incisions they gather the juice, which drops down like tears. So
Pompey pitched his camp in that place one night, and then hasted away the
next morning to Jerusalem; but Aristobulus was so aftrighted at his approach,
that he came and met him by way of supplication. He also promised him money,
and that he would deliver up both himself and the city into his disposal,
and thereby mitigated the anger of Pompey. Yet did not he perform any of
the conditions he had agreed to; for Aristobulus's party would not so much
as admit Gabinius into the city, who was sent to receive the money that
he had promised.
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