dy to march with him into Judea, Antigonus hoped
to get some part of the country by their assistance. The place is called
Drymi; and when some others came and met them, the men privately fell
upon Jerusalem; and when some more were come to them, they got together
in great numbers, and came against the king's palace, and besieged it.
But as Phasaelus's and Herod's party came to the other's assistance, and
a battle happened between them in the market-place, the young men beat
their enemies, and pursued them into the temple, and sent some armed men
into the adjoining houses to keep them in, who yet being destitute of
such as should support them, were burnt, and the houses with them, by
the people who rose up against them. But Herod was revenged on these
seditious adversaries of his a little afterward for this injury they had
offered him, when he fought with them, and slew a great number of them.

4. But while there were daily skirmishes, the enemy waited for the
coming of the multitude out of the country to Pentecost, a feast of ours
so called; and when that day was come, many ten thousands of the
people were gathered together about the temple, some in armor, and
some without. Now those that came guarded both the temple and the city,
excepting what belonged to the palace, which Herod guarded with a few
of his soldiers; and Phasaelus had the charge of the wall, while Herod,
with a body of his men, sallied out upon the enemy, who lay in the
suburbs, and fought courageously, and put many ten thousands to flight,
some flying into the city, and some into the temple, and some into the
outer fortifications, for some such fortifications there were in that
place. Phasaelus came also to his assistance; yet was Pacorus, the
general of the Parthians, at the desire of Antigonus, admitted into the
city, with a few of his horsemen, under pretence indeed as if he would
still the sedition, but in reality to assist Antigonus in obtaining the
government. And when Phasaelus met him, and received him kindly, Pacorus
persuaded him to go himself as ambassador to Barzapharnes, which was
done fraudulently. Accordingly, Phasaelus, suspecting no harm, complied
with his proposal, while Herod did not give his consent to what was
done, because of the perfidiousness of these barbarians, but desired
Phasaelus rather to fight those that were come into the city.

5. So both Hyrcanus and Phasaelus went on the embassage; but Pacorus
left with Herod two hundr