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When Claudius heard this, he restrained the violence of the soldiery,
and received the senate into the camp, and treated them after an obliging
manner, and went out with them presently to offer their thank-offerings
to God, which were proper upon, his first coming to the empire. Moreover,
he bestowed on Agrippa his whole paternal kingdom immediately, and added
to it, besides those countries that had been given by Augustus to Herod,
Trachonitis and Auranitis, and still besides these, that kingdom which
was called the kingdom of Lysanius. This gift he declared to the people
by a decree, but ordered the magistrates to have the donation engraved
on tables of brass, and to be set up in the capitol. He bestowed on his
brother Herod, who was also his son-in-law, by marrying [his daughter]
Bernice, the kingdom of Chalcis.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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