mans, while they have demonstrated the same by such a great number of
their decrees relating to us; nor will they doubt of our fidelity as to
the rest of those decrees, since we have shown the same in those we have
produced, And thus have we sufficiently explained that friendship and
confederacy we at those times had with the Romans.

CHAPTER 11. How Marcus, Succeeded Sextus When He Had Been Slain By
Bassus's Treachery; And How, After The Death Of Caesar, Cassius Came
Into Syria, And Distressed Judea; As Also How Malichus Slew Antipater
And Was Himself Slain By Herod.

1. Now it so fell out, that about this very time the affairs of Syria
were in great disorder, and this on the occasion following: Cecilius
Bassus, one of Pompey's party, laid a treacherous design against Sextus
Caesar, and slew him, and then took his army, and got the management
of public affairs into his own hand; so there arose a great war about
Apamia, while Caesar's generals came against him with an army of
horsemen and footmen; to these Antipater also sent succors, and his
sons with them, as calling to mind the kindnesses they had received from
Caesar, and on that account he thought it but just to require punishment
for him, and to take vengeance on the man that had murdered him. And as
the war was drawn out into a great length, Marcus [21] came from Rome to
take Sextus's government upon him. But Caesar was slain by Cassius and
Brutus in the senate-house, after he had retained the government three
years and six months. This fact however, is related elsewhere.

2. As the war that arose upon the death of Caesar was now begun, and the
principal men were all gone, some one way, and some another, to raise
armies, Cassius came from Rome into Syria, in order to receive the [army
that lay in the] camp at Apamia; and having raised the siege, he brought
over both Bassus and Marcus to his party. He then went over the cities,
and got together weapons and soldiers, and laid great taxes upon those
cities; and he chiefly oppressed Judea, and exacted of it seven
hundred talents: but Antipater, when he saw the state to be in so great
consternation and disorder, he divided the collection of that sum, and
appointed his two sons to gather it; and so that part of it was to be
exacted by Malichus, who was ill-disposed to him, and part by others.
And because Herod did exact what is required of him from Galilee before
others, he was in the greatest favor with Cassi