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So when Alexander was delivered from the fear he was in of Ptolemy, he presently made an expedition against Coe- losyria. He took also Gadara, after a siege of ten months. He also took Amathus, a very strong fortress belonging to the inhabitants above Jordan, where Theodorus, the son of Zeno, had his chief treasure, and what he esteemed most pre- cious. This Zeno fell unexpectedly upon the Jews, and slew ten thousand of them, and seized upon Alexander's baggage : yet did not this misfortune ter...rify Alexander, but he made an expedition upon the maritime parts of the country, Raphia, and Anthedon, (the iiame of which, king Herod afterward 4;hanged to Agrippias,) and took' even that by force; but when Alexander saw that Ptolemy was retired from aza to Cyprus, and his mother Cleopatra was returned into Egypt, he grew angry at the people of Gaza, because they had in- vited Ptolemy to assist them, and besieged their chy, and ra-^ vaged their country. But as ApoUodotus, the general of the army of Gaza, fell upon the camp of the Jews by night, witb two thousanc^ foreign, and ten thousand of his own forces, while the night lasted, those of Gaza prevailed, because th^ «neirty was made to believe that it was Ptolemy who/ attacj^ y Google Ckap.XIlL OF THE JEWS.
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