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Nay, indeed, while Antipater was in Judea, and before he was upon
his journey to Rome, he gave money to have the like letters against them
sent from Rome, and then came to his father, who as yet had no suspicion
of him, and apologized for his brethren, and alleged on their behalf that
some of the things contained in those letters were false, and others of
them were only youthful errors. Yet at the same time that he expended a
great deal of his money, by making presents to such as wrote against his
brethren, did he aim to bring his accounts into confusion, by buying costly
garments, and carpets of various contextures, with silver and gold cups,
and a great many more curious things, that so, among the view great expenses
laid out upon such furniture, he might conceal the money he had used in
hiring men [to write the letters]; for he brought in an account of his
expenses, amounting to two hundred talents, his main pretense for which
was file law-suit he had been in with Sylleus. So while all his rogueries,
even those of a lesser sort also, were covered by his greater villainy,
while all the examinations by torture proclaimed his attempt to murder
his father, and the letters proclaimed his second attempt to murder his
brethren; yet did no one of those that came to Rome inform him of his misfortunes
in Judea, although seven months had intervened between his conviction and
his return, so great was the hatred which they all bore to him. And perhaps
they were the ghosts of those brethren of his that had been murdered that
stopped the mouths of those that intended to have told him. He then wrote
from Rome, and informed his [friends] that he would soon come to them,
and how he was dismissed with honor by Caesar.
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