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So both Hyrcanus and Phasaelus went on the embassage; but Pacorus
left with Herod two hundred horsemen, and ten men, who were called the
freemen, and conducted the others on their journey; and when they
were in Galilee, the governors of the cities there met them in their arms.
Barzaphanles also received them at the first with cheerfulness, and made
them presents, though he afterward conspired against them; and Phasaelus,
with his horsemen, were conducted to the sea-side. But when they heard
that Antigonus had promised to give the Parthians a thousand talents, and
five hundred women, to assist him against them, they soon had a suspicion
of the barbarians. Moreover, there was one who informed them that snares
were laid for them by night, while a guard came about them secretly; and
they had then been seized upon, had not they waited for the seizure of
Herod by the Parthians that were about Jerusalem, lest, upon the slaughter
of Hyrcanus and Phasaelus, he should have an intimation of it, and escape
out of their hands. And these were the circumstances they were now in;
and they saw who they were that guarded them. Some persons indeed would
have persuaded Phasaelus to fly away immediately on horseback, and not
stay any longer; and there was one Ophellius, who, above all the rest,
was earnest with him to do so; for he had heard of this treachery from
Saramalla, the richest of all the Syrians at that time, who also promised
to provide him ships to carry him off; for the sea was just by them. But
he had no mind to desert Hyrcanus, nor bring his brother into danger; but
he went to Barzapharnes, and told him he did not act justly when he made
such a contrivance against them; for that if he wanted money, he would
give him more than Antigonus; and besides, that it was a horrible thing
to slay those that came to him upon the security of their oaths, and that
when they had done them no injury. But the barbarian swore to him that
there was no truth in any of his suspicions, but that he was troubled with
nothing but false proposals, and then went away to Pacorus.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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