are ill-will to him, because he was an ill man. But when they had sent
ambassadors to Ptolemy, who was called Physcon, that he would send them
one of the family at Seleueus, in order to take the kingdom, and he had
sent them Alexander, who was called Zebina, with an army, and there had
been a battle between them, Demetrius was beaten in the fight, and fled
to Cleopatra his wife, to Ptolemais; but his wife would not receive him.
He went thence to Tyre, and was there caught; and when he had suffered
much from his enemies before his death, he was slain by them. So
Alexander took the kingdom, and made a league with Hyrcanus, who yet,
when he afterward fought with Antiochus the son of Demetrius, who was
called Grypus, was also beaten in the fight, and slain.

CHAPTER 10. How Upon The Quarrel Between Antiochus Grypus And Antiochus
Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished
It; And How Hyrcaus Joined Himself To The Sect Of The Sadducees, And
Left That Of The Pharisees.

1. When Antiochus had taken the kingdom, he was afraid to make war
against Judea, because he heard that his brother by the same mother,
who was also called Antiochus, was raising an army against him out of
Cyzicum; so he staid in his own land, and resolved to prepare himself
for the attack he expected from his brother, who was called Cyzicenus,
because he had been brought up in that city. He was the son of Antiochus
that was called Soter, who died in Parthia. He was the brother of
Demetrius, the father of Grypus; for it had so happened, that one and
the same Cleopatra was married to two who were brethren, as we have
related elsewhere. But Antiochus Cyzicenus coming into Syria, continued
many years at war with his brother. Now Hyrcanus lived all this while
in peace; for after the death of Antlochus, he revolted from the
Macedonians, [27] nor did he any longer pay them the least regard,
either as their subject or their friend; but his affairs were in a very
improving and flourishing condition in the times of Alexander Zebina,
and especially under these brethren, for the war which they had with
one another gave Hyrcanus the opportunity of enjoying himself in Judea
quietly, insomuch that he got an immense quantity of money. How ever,
when Antiochus Cyzicenus distressed his land, he then openly showed
what he meant. And when he saw that Antiochus was destitute of Egyptian
auxiliaries, and that both he and his brother were in an