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Thus a period was put to Archelaus's stratagem, whereby he delivered
his son-in-law out of the dangers he was in; but when these reconciliations
were over, they spent their time in feastings and agreeable entertainments.
And when Archelaus was going away, Herod made him a present of seventy
talents, with a golden throne set with precious stones, and some eunuchs,
and a concubine who was called Pannychis. He also paid due honors to every
one of his friends according to their dignity. In like manner did all the
king's kindred, by his command, make glorious presents to Archelaus; and
so he was conducted on his way by Herod and his nobility as far as Antioch.
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1 HOW EURYCLES 1 CALUMNIATED THE SONS OF MARIAMNE; AND HOW EUARATUS OF COS'S APOLOGY FOR THEM HAD NO EFFECT.
2 This vile fellow, Eurycles the Lacedemonian, seems to have been the same who is mentioned by Plutarch, as (twenty-live years before) a companion to Mark Antony, and as living with Herod; whence he might easily insinuate himself into the acquaintance of Herod's sons, Antipater and Alexander, as Usher, Hudson, and Spanheim justly suppose. The reason why his being a Spartan rendered him acceptable to the Jews as we here see he was, is visible from the public records of the Jews and Spartans, owning those Spartans to be of kin to the Jews, and derived from their common ancestor Abraham, the first patriarch of the Jewish nation, Antiq. B. XII. ch. 4. sect. 10; B. XIII. ch. 5. sect. 8; and 1 Macc. 12:7.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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