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Now one may learn, in this instance, how very much this flattering
Antipater could do, - even what Salome in the like circumstances could
not do; for when she, who was his sister, and who, by the means of Julia,
Caesar's wife, earnestly desired leave to be married to Sylleus the Arabian,
Herod swore he would esteem her his bitter enemy, unless she would leave
off that project: he also caused her, against her own consent, to be married
to Alexas, a friend of his, and that one of her daughters should be married
to Alexas's son, and the other to Antipater's uncle by the mother's side.
And for the daughters the king had by Mariamne, the one was married to
Antipater, his sister's son, and the other to his brother's son, Phasaelus.
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1 ANTIPATER BECOMES INTOLERABLE. HE IS SENT TO ROME, AND CARRIES HEROD'S TESTAMENT WITH HIM; PHERORAS LEAVES HIS BROTHER, THAT HE MAY KEEP HIS WIFE. HE DIES AT HOME.
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