n to no terms of accommodation, he
slew a great number of them, and shut up a great number of them in the
citadel. Now Marcus Antonius, their leader, signalized himself in this
battle, who, as he always showed great courage, so did he never show it
so much as now; but Gabinius, leaving forces to take the citadel, went
away himself, and settled the cities that had not been demolished,
and rebuilt those that had been destroyed. Accordingly, upon his
injunctions, the following cities were restored: Scythopolis, and
Samaria, and Anthedon, and Apollonia, and Jamnia, and Raphia, and
Mariassa, and Adoreus, and Gamala, and Ashdod, and many others; while
a great number of men readily ran to each of them, and became their
inhabitants.

5. When Gabinius had taken care of these cities, he returned to
Alexandrium, and pressed on the siege. So when Alexander despaired of
ever obtaining the government, he sent ambassadors to him, and prayed
him to forgive what he had offended him in, and gave up to him the
remaining fortresses, Hyrcanium and Macherus, as he put Alexandrium into
his hands afterwards; all which Gabinius demolished, at the persuasion
of Alexander's mother, that they might not be receptacles of men in a
second war. She was now there in order to mollify Gabinius, out of her
concern for her relations that were captives at Rome, which were her
husband and her other children. After this Gabinius brought Hyrcanus to
Jerusalem, and committed the care of the temple to him; but ordained the
other political government to be by an aristocracy. He also parted the
whole nation into five conventions, assigning one portion to Jerusalem,
another to Gadara, that another should belong to Amathus, a fourth to
Jericho, and to the fifth division was allotted Sepphoris, a city of
Galilee. So the people were glad to be thus freed from monarchical
government, and were governed for the future by all aristocracy.

6. Yet did Aristobulus afford another foundation for new disturbances.
He fled away from Rome, and got together again many of the Jews that
were desirous of a change, such as had borne an affection to him of old;
and when he had taken Alexandrium in the first place, he attempted to
build a wall about it; but as soon as Gabinius had sent an army against
him under Siscuria, and Antonius, and Servilius, he was aware of it,
and retreated to Macherus. And as for the unprofitable multitude, he
dismissed them, and only marched on with those t