s: "There were four classes of men among those of Cyrene;
that of citizens, that of husbandmen, the third of strangers, and the
fourth of Jews. Now these Jews are already gotten into all cities; and
it is hard to find a place in the habitable earth that hath not admitted
this tribe of men, and is not possessed by them; and it hath come to
pass that Egypt and Cyrene, as having the same governors, and a great
number of other nations, imitate their way of living, and maintain
great bodies of these Jews in a peculiar manner, and grow up to greater
prosperity with them, and make use of the same laws with that nation
also. Accordingly, the Jews have places assigned them in Egypt, wherein
they inhabit, besides what is peculiarly allotted to this nation
at Alexandria, which is a large part of that city. There is also an
ethnarch allowed them, who governs the nation, and distributes justice
to them, and takes care of their contracts, and of the laws to them
belonging, as if he were the ruler of a free republic. In Egypt,
therefore, this nation is powerful, because the Jews were originally
Egyptians, and because the land wherein they inhabit, since they went
thence, is near to Egypt. They also removed into Cyrene, because that
this land adjoined to the government of Egypt, as well as does Judea, or
rather was formerly under the same government." And this is what Strabo
says.

3. So when Crassus had settled all things as he himself pleased, he
marched into Parthia, where both he himself and all his army perished,
as hath been related elsewhere. But Cassius, as he fled from Rome to
Syria, took possession of it, and was an impediment to the Parthians,
who by reason of their victory over Crassus made incursions upon it.
And as he came back to Tyre, he went up into Judea also, and fell upon
Tarichee, and presently took it, and carried about thirty thousand Jews
captives; and slew Pitholaus, who succeeded Aristobulus in his seditious
practices, and that by the persuasion of Antipater, who proved to have
great interest in him, and was at that time in great repute with the
Idumeans also: out of which nation he married a wife, who was the
daughter of one of their eminent men, and her name was Cypros, [12] by
whom he had four sons, Phasael, and Herod, who was afterwards made king,
and Joseph, and Pheroras; and a daughter, named Salome. This Antipater
cultivated also a friendship and mutual kindness with other potentates,
but especially wit