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Upon the war between Cassius and Brutus on one side, against the
younger Caesar [Augustus] and Antony on the other, Cassius and Marcus got
together an army out of Syria; and because Herod was likely to have a great
share in providing necessaries, they then made him procurator of all Syria,
and gave him an army of foot and horse. Cassius premised him also, that
after the war was over, he would make him king of Judea. But it so happened
that the power and hopes of his son became the cause of his perdition;
for as Malichus was afraid of this, he corrupted one of the king's cup-bearers
with money to give a poisoned potion to Antipater; so he became a sacrifice
to Malichus's wickedness, and died at a feast. He was a man in other respects
active in the management of affairs, and one that recovered the government
to Hyrcanus, and preserved it in his hands.
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