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WHEN Cleopatra saw that her son was grown great, and laid Judea waste,
without disturbance, and had gotten the city of Gaza under his power, she
resolved no longer to overlook what he did, when he was almost at her gates;
and she concluded, that now he was so much stronger than before, he would
be very desirous of the dominion over the Egyptians; but she immediately
marched against him, with a fleet at sea and an army of foot on land, and
made Chelcias and Ananias the Jews generals of her whole army, while she
sent the greatest part of her riches, her grandchildren, and her testament,
to the people of Cos 1
Cleopatra also ordered her son Alexander to sail with a great fleet to
Phoenicia; and when that country had revolted, she came to Ptolemais; and
because the people of Ptolemais did not receive her, she besieged the city;
but Ptolemy went out of Syria, and made haste unto Egypt, supposing that
he should find it destitute of an army, and soon take it, though he failed
of his hopes. At this time Chelcias, one of Cleopatra's generals, happened
to die in Celesyria, as he was in pursuit of Ptolemy.
1 This city, or island, Cos, is not that remote island in the Aegean Sea, famous for the birth of the great Hippocrates, but a city or island of the same name adjoining to Egypt, mentioned both by Stephanus and Ptolemy, as Dr. Mizon informs us. Of which Cos, and the treasures there laid up by Cleopatra and the Jews, see Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 7, sect. 2.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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