they compelled those that were
with him by thirst to deliver up themselves. So they took a great many
spoils out of that country, and Demetrius himself, whom they sent to
Mithridates, who was then king of Parthis; but as to those whom they
took captives of the people of Antioch, they restored them to the
Antiochinus without any reward. Now Mithridates, the king of Parthis,
had Demetrius in great honor, till Demetrius ended his life by sickness.
So Philip, presently after the fight was over, came to Antioch, and took
it, and reigned over Syria.

CHAPTER 15. How Antiochus, Who Was Called Dionysus, And After Him Aretas
Made Expeditions Into Judea; As Also How Alexander Took Many Cities And
Then Returned To Jerusalem, And After A Sickness Of Three Years Died;
And What Counsel He Gave To Alexandra.

1. After this, Antiochus, who was called Dionysus, [41] and was Philip's
brother, aspired to the dominion, and came to Damascus, and got the
power into his hands, and there he reigned; but as he was making war
against the Arabians, his brother Philip heard of it, and came to
Damascus, where Milesius, who had been left governor of the citadel,
and the Damascens themselves, delivered up the city to him; yet because
Philip was become ungrateful to him, and had bestowed upon him nothing
of that in hopes whereof he had received him into the city, but had a
mind to have it believed that it was rather delivered up out of fear
than by the kindness of Milesius, and because he had not rewarded him as
he ought to have done, he became suspected by him, and so he was obliged
to leave Damascus again; for Milesius caught him marching out into
the Hippodrome, and shut him up in it, and kept Damascus for Antiochus
[Eucerus], who hearing how Philip's affairs stood, came back out of
Arabia. He also came immediately, and made an expedition against Judea,
with eight thousand armed footmen, and eight hundred horsemen. So
Alexander, out of fear of his coming, dug a deep ditch, beginning at
Chabarzaba, which is now called Antipatris, to the sea of Joppa, on
which part only his army could be brought against him. He also raised
a wall, and erected wooden towers, and intermediate redoubts, for one
hundred and fifty furlongs in length, and there expected the coming of
Antiochus; but he soon burnt them all, and made his army pass by that
way into Arabia. The Arabian king [Aretas] at first retreated, but
afterward appeared on the sudden with ten tho