3. But  then,  upon  the  hundred  and  sixty-fifth
year,  Demetrius,  the  son  of  Demetrius,  came
from  Crete,  with  a  great  number  of  mercenary
soldiers,  which  Lasthenes,  the  Cretan,  brought
him,  and  sailed  to  Cilicia. This  thing  cast  Alex-
ander into  gi-eat  concern  and  disorder  when  he
heard  it ;  so  he  made  haste  immediately  out  of
Phcenicia,  and  came  to  Antioch,  that  he  might
put  matters  in  a  safe  posture  there  before  De-
metrius should  come. He  also  left  Apollouius
Daus  *  governor  of  Co3lesyria,  who,  coming  to
Jamnia  with  a  great  army,  sent  to  Jonathan,  the
high  priest,  and  told  him  that  it  was  not  right
that  lie  alone  should  live  at  rest,  and  with  au-
thority, and  not  be  subject  to  the  king;  tliat
this  thing  had  made  him  a  reproach  among  all
men,  that  he  had  not  yet  made  him  subject  to
the  king. '  'Do  not  thou  therefore  deceive  thyself,
and  sit  stiU  among  the  mountains,  and  pretend
to  have  forces  ■with  thee ;  but  if  thou  hast  any
dependence  on  thy  strength,  come  do'wn  into  the
plain,  and  let  our  armies  be  compared  togetlier,
and  ■the  event  of  the  battle  "will  demonstrate
which  of  us  is  the  most  courageous. However,
take  notice,  that  the  most  valiant  men  of  every
city  are  in  my  army,  and  that  these  are  the  very
men  who  have  always  beaten  thy  progenitors ;
but  let  us  have  the  battle  in  such  a  place  of  the
country  where  we  may  fight  -ndth  weapons,  and
not  with  stones,  and  where  there  may  be  no
place  whither  those  that  are  beaten  may  Qy."

4. With  this  Jonathan  was  irritated ;  and
choosing  himself  out  ten  thousand  of  liis  sol-
diers, he  went  out  of  Jerusalem  in  haste,  with
his  brother  Simon,  and  came  to  Joppa,  and
pitched  his  camp  on  the  outside  of  the  city,  be-
cause the  people  of  Joppa  had  shut  their  gates
against  him,  for  they  had  a  garrison  in  the  city
j)ut  there  by  Apollonius. But  when  Jonathan
was  prepaiing  to  besiege  them,  they  were  afraid
he  would  take  them  by  force,  and  so  they  ojiened
the  gates  to  him. 