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Ἀμήχανον δ᾽ ἐν εὐπραγίαις φθόνον διαφυγεῖν: Ὑρκανὸς
γοῦν ἤδη μὲν καὶ καθ᾽ ἑαυτὸν ἡσυχῆ πρὸς τὸ κλέος τῶν νεανίσκων
ἐδάκνετο, μάλιστα δὲ ἐλύπει τὰ Ἡρώδου κατορθώματα καὶ κήρυκες
ἐπάλληλοι τῆς καθ᾽ ἕκαστον εὐδοξίας προστρέχοντες πολλοὶ [δὲ]
τῶν ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις βασκάνων ἠρέθιζον, οἷς ἢ τὸ τῶν παίδων
ἢ τὸ Ἀντιπάτρου σωφρονικὸν προσίστατο,
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λέγοντες ὡς Ἀντιπάτρῳ
καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ παραχωρήσας τῶν πραγμάτων καθέζοιτο τοὔνομα
μόνον βασιλέως ἔχων ἔρημον ἐξουσίας. καὶ μέχρι τοῦ πλανηθήσεται
καθ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ βασιλεῖς ἐπιτρέφων; οὐδὲ γὰρ εἰρωνεύεσθαι
τὴν ἐπιτροπὴν αὐτοὺς ἔτι, φανεροὺς δὲ εἶναι δεσπότας παρωσαμένους
ἐκεῖνον, εἴ γε μήτε ἐντολὰς δόντος μήτε ἐπιστείλαντος αὐτοῦ
τοσούτους παρὰ τὸν τῶν Ἰουδαίων νόμον ἀνῄρηκεν Ἡρώδης: ὅν, εἰ
μὴ βασιλεύς ἐστιν ἀλλ᾽ ἔτι ἰδιώτης, δεῖν ἐπὶ δίκην ἥκειν ἀποδώσοντα
λόγον αὐτῷ τε καὶ τοῖς πατρίοις νόμοις, οἳ κτείνειν ἀκρίτους
οὐκ ἐφιᾶσιν.
Flavius Josephus. Flavii Iosephi opera. B. Niese. Berlin. Weidmann. 1895.
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