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BUT now came another accusation from the Jews against Archelaus at
Rome, which he was to answer to. It was made by those ambassadors who,
before the revolt, had come, by Varus's permission, to plead for the liberty
of their country; those that came were fifty in number, but there were
more than eight thousand of the Jews at Rome who supported them. And when
Caesar had assembled a council of the principal Romans in Apollo's 1
temple, that was in the palace, (this was what he had himself built and
adorned, at a vast expense,) the multitude of the Jews stood with the ambassadors,
and on the other side stood Archelaus, with his friends; but as for the
kindred of Archelaus, they stood on neither side; for to stand on Archelaus's
side, their hatred to him, and envy at him, would not give them leave,
while yet they were afraid to be seen by Caesar with his accusers. Besides
these, there were present Archelaus's brother Philip, being sent thither
beforehand, out of kindness by Varus, for two reasons: the one was this,
that he might be assisting to Archelaus; and the other was this, that in
case Caesar should make a distribution of what Herod possessed among his
posterity, he might obtain some share of it.
1 This holding a council in the temple of Apollo, in the emperor's palace at Rome, by Augustus, and even the building of this temple magnificently by himself in that palace, are exactly agreeable to Augustus, in his elder years, as Aldrich and from Suttonius and Propertius.
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