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When Caesar heard this, he declared Hyrcanus to be the most worthy
of the high priesthood, and gave leave to Antipater to choose what authority
he pleased; but he left the determination of such dignity to him that bestowed
the dignity upon him; so he was constituted procurator of all Judea, and
obtained leave, moreover, to rebuild 1
those walls of his country that had been thrown down. These honorary grants
Caesar sent orders to have engraved in the Capitol, that they might stand
there as indications of his own justice, and of the virtue of Antipater.
1 What is here noted by Hudson and Spanheim, that this grant of leave to rebuild the walls of the cities of Judea was made by Julius Caesar, not as here to Antipater, but to Hyrcanas, Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 8. sect. 5, has hardly an appearance of a contradiction; Antipater being now perhaps considered only as Hyrcanus's deputy and minister; although he afterwards made a cipher of Hyrcanus, and, under great decency of behavior to him, took the real authority to himself.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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