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WHEN Agrippa had finished what I have above related at Berytus, he
removed to Tiberias, a city of Galilee. Now he was in great esteem among
other kings. Accordingly there came to him Antiochus, king of Commalena,
Sampsigeratnus, king of Emesa, and Cotys, who was king of the Lesser Armenia,
and Polemo, who was king of Pontus, as also Herod his brother, who was
king of Chalcis. All these he treated with agreeable entertainments, and
after an obliging manner, and so as to exhibit the greatness of his mind,
and so as to appear worthy of those respects which the kings paid to him,
by coming thus to see him. However, while these kings staid with him, Marcus,
the president of Syria, came thither. So the king, in order to preserve
the respect that was due to the Romans, went out of the city to meet him,
as far as seven furlongs. But this proved to be the beginning of a difference
between him and Marcus; for he took with him in his chariot those other
kings as his assessors. But Marcus had a suspicion what the meaning could
be of so great a friendship of these kings one with another, and did not
think so close an agreement of so many potentates to be for the interest
of the Romans. He therefore sent some of his domestics to every one of
them, and enjoined them to go their ways home without further delay. This
was very ill taken by Agrippa, who after that became his enemy. And now
he took the high priesthood away from Matthias, and made Elioneus, the
son of Cantheras, high priest in his stead.
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