Cesar, viz. Jamblicus the ruler, and
Ptolemy his son, and Tholomy the son of Sohemus, who dwelt at Mount
Libanus, and almost all the cities. So Mithridates marched out of Syria,
and came to Pelusium; and when its inhabitants would not admit him, he
besieged the city. Now Antipater signalized himself here, and was the
first who plucked down a part of the wall, and so opened a way to the
rest, whereby they might enter the city, and by this means Pelusium was
taken. But it happened that the Egyptian Jews, who dwelt in the country
called Onion, would not let Antipater and Mithridates, with their
soldiers, pass to Caesar; but Antipater persuaded them to come over
with their party, because he was of the same people with them, and
that chiefly by showing them the epistles of Hyrcanus the high priest,
wherein he exhorted them to cultivate friendship with Caesar, and to
supply his army with money, and all sorts of provisions which they
wanted; and accordingly, when they saw Antipater and the high priest of
the same sentiments, they did as they were desired. And when the Jews
about Memphis heard that these Jews were come over to Caesar, they also
invited Mithridates to come to them; so he came and received them also
into his army.

2. And when Mithridates had gone over all Delta, as the place is called,
he came to a pitched battle with the enemy, near the place called the
Jewish Camp. Now Mithridates had the right wing, and Antipater the left;
and when it came to a fight, that wing where Mithridates was gave way,
and was likely to suffer extremely, unless Antipater had come running
to him with his own soldiers along the shore, when he had already beaten
the enemy that opposed him; so he delivered Mithridates, and put those
Egyptians who had been too hard for him to flight. He also took
their camp, and continued in the pursuit of them. He also recalled
Mithridates, who had been worsted, and was retired a great way off;
of whose soldiers eight hundred fell, but of Antipater's fifty. So
Mithridates sent an account of this battle to Caesar, and openly
declared that Antipater was the author of this victory, and of his own
preservation, insomuch that Caesar commended Antipater then, and made
use of him all the rest of that war in the most hazardous undertakings;
he happened also to be wounded in one of those engagements.

3. However, when Caesar, after some time, had finished that war, and
was sailed away for Syria, he honored Antipat