suffered by its garrison and the Jewish
deserters, and what miseries they might hereafter suffer in case any
foreigner should obtain the kingdom, and put a garrison into that
citadel. This speech induced the multitude to a compliance, because he
exhorted them to do nothing but what was for their own good: so they all
set themselves to the work, and leveled the mountain, and in that work
spent both day and night without any intermission, which cost them three
whole years before it was removed, and brought to an entire level
with the plain of the rest of the city. After which the temple was the
highest of all the buildings, now the citadel, as well as the mountain
whereon it stood, were demolished. And these actions were thus performed
under Simon.

CHAPTER 7. How Simon Confederated Himself With Antiochus Pius, And
Made War Against Trypho, And A Little Afterward, Against Cendebeus,
The General Of Antiochus's Army; As Also How Simon Was Murdered By His
Son-In-Law Ptolemy, And That By Treachery.

1. [15] Now a little while after Demetrius had been carried into
captivity, Trypho his governor destroyed Antiochus, [16] the son of
Alexander, who was also called The God, [17] and this when he had
reigned four years, though he gave it out that he died under the hands
of the surgeons. He then sent his friends, and those that were most
intimate with him, to the soldiers, and promised that he would give them
a great deal of money if they would make him king. He intimated to them
that Demetrius was made a captive by the Parthians; and that Demetrius's
brother Atitiochus, if he came to be king, would do them a great deal of
mischief, in way of revenge for their revolting from his brother. So the
soldiers, in expectation of the wealth they should get by bestowing the
kingdom on Trypho, made him their ruler. However, when Trypho had gained
the management of affairs, he demonstrated his disposition to be wicked;
for while he was a private person, he cultivated familiarity with
the multitude, and pretended to great moderation, and so drew them
on artfully to whatsoever he pleased; but when he had once taken the
kingdom, he laid aside any further dissimulation, and was the true
Trypho; which behavior made his enemies superior to him; for the
soldiery hated him, and revolted from him to Cleopatra, the wife of
Demetrius, who was then shut up in Seleucia with her children. But
as Antiochus, the brother of Demetrius who was called So