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Now Agrippa, the son of the deceased, was at Rome, and brought up
with Claudius Caesar. And when Caesar was informed that Agrippa was dead,
and that the inhabitants of Sebaste and Cesarea had abused him, he was
sorry for the first news, and was displeased with the ingratitude of those
cities. He was therefore disposed to send Agrippa, junior, away presently
to succeed his father in the kingdom, and was willing to confirm him in
it by his oath. But those freed-men and friends of his, who had the greatest
authority with him, dissuaded him from it, and said that it was a dangerous
experiment to permit so large a kingdom to come under the government of
so very young a man, and one hardly yet arrived at years of discretion,
who would not be able to take sufficient care of its administration; while
the weight of a kingdom is heavy enough to a grown man. So Caesar thought
what they said to be reasonable. Accordingly he sent Cuspins Fadus to be
procurator of Judea, and of the entire kingdom, and paid that respect to
the eceased as not to introduce Marcus, who had been at variance with him,
into his kingdom. But he determined, in the first place, to send orders
to Fadus, that he should chastise the inhabitants of Cesarca and Sebaste
for those abuses they had offered to him that was deceased, and their madness
towards his daughters that were still alive; and that he should remove
that body of soldiers that were at Cesarea and Sebaste, with the five regiments,
into Pontus, that they might do their military duty there; and that he
should choose an equal number of soldiers out of the Roman legions that
were in Syria, to supply their place. Yet were not those that had such
orders actually removed; for by sending ambassadors to Claudius, they mollified
him, and got leave to abide in Judea still; and these were the very men
that became the source of very great calamities to the Jews in after-times,
and sowed the seeds of that war which began under Florus; whence it was
that when Vespasian had subdued the country, he removed them out of his
province, as we shall relate hereafter.
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