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And now Archelaus took possession of his ethnarchy, and used not
the Jews only, but the Samaritans also, barbarously; and this out of his
resentment of their old quarrels with him. Whereupon they both of them
sent ambassadors against him to Caesar; and in the ninth year of his government
he was banished to Vienna, a city of Gaul, and his effects were put into
Caesar's treasury. But the report goes, that before he was sent for by
Caesar, he seemed to see nine ears of corn, full and large, but devoured
by oxen. When, therefore, he had sent for the diviners, and some of the
Chaldeans, and inquired of them what they thought it portended; and when
one of them had one interpretation, and another had another, Simon, one
of the sect of Essens, said that he thought the ears of corn denoted years,
and the oxen denoted a mutation of things, because by their ploughing they
made an alteration of the country. That therefore he should reign as many
years as there were ears of corn; and after he had passed through various
alterations of fortune, should die. Now five days after Archelaus had heard
this interpretation he was called to his trial.
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