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[317]
After these, the commander of the garrison of Alexandrium was caught
and tortured; for he was accused to have promised to receive the young
men into his fortress, and to supply them with that money of the king's
which was laid up in that fortress, yet did not he acknowledge any thing
of it himself; but his son came ill, and said it was so, and delivered
up the writing, which, so far as could be guessed, was in Alexander's hand.
Its contents were these: "When we have finished, by God's help, all
that we have proposed to do, we will come to you; but do your endeavors,
as you have promised, to receive us into your fortress." After this
writing was produced, Herod had no doubt about the treacherous designs
of his sons against him. But Alexander said that Diophantus the scribe
had imitated his hand, and that the paper was maliciously drawn up by Antipater;
for Diophantus appeared to be very cunning in such practices; and as he
was afterward convicted of forging other papers, he was put to death for
it.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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