arion also gave him assistance. He had been left by Cassius
to tyrannize over Tyre; for this Cussiris was a man that seized on
Syria, and then kept it under, in the way of a tyrant. Marion also
marched into Galilee, which lay in his neighborhood, and took three of
his fortresses, and put garrisons into them to keep them. But when Herod
came, he took all from him; but the Tyrian garrison he dismissed in a
very civil manner; nay, to some of the soldiers he made presents out
of the good-will he bare to that city. When he had despatched these
affairs, and was gone to meet Antigonus, he joined battle with him, and
beat him, and drove him out of Judea presently, when he was just come
into its borders. But when he was come to Jerusalem, Hyrcanus and the
people put garlands about his head; for he had already contracted an
affinity with the family of Hyrcanus by having espoused a descendant of
his, and for that reason Herod took the greater care of him, as being
to marry the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, add the
granddaughter of Hyrcanus, by which wife he became the father of three
male and two female children. He had also married before this another
wife, out of a lower family of his own nation, whose name was Doris, by
whom he had his eldest son Antipater.

2. Now Antonius and Caesar had beaten Cassius near Philippi, as others
have related; but after the victory, Caesar went into Gaul, [Italy,] and
Antony marched for Asia, who, when he was arrived at Bithynia, he had
ambassadors that met him from all parts. The principal men also of the
Jews came thither, to accuse Phasaelus and Herod; and they said that
Hyrcanus had indeed the appearance of reigning, but that these men had
all the power: but Antony paid great respect to Herod, who was come
to him to make his defense against his accusers, on which account his
adversaries could not so much as obtain a hearing; which favor Herod had
gained of Antony by money. But still, when Antony was come to Ephesus,
Hyrcanus the high priest, and our nation, sent an embassage to him,
which carried a crown of gold with them, and desired that he would write
to the governors of the provinces, to set those Jews free who had been
carried captive by Cassius, and this without their having fought against
him, and to restore them that country, which, in the days of Cassius,
had been taken from them. Antony thought the Jews' desires were just,
and wrote immediately to Hyrcanus, and to th