CHAPTER  IX.
ATIISTOBULITS  IS  TAKEN  OFF  BY  POMPET'S  FRIENPS,
AS  IS  HIS  SON  ALEXANUEIt  BY  KCII'IO.  ANTI-
PATER CULTIVATES  A  FXilENDSUIP  WITH  CiESAR.
AFTER  POMPET  S  DEATH ;  HE  ALSO  PERFORMS
GREAT  ACTIONS  IN  THAT  WAR,  WHEREIN  HE
ASSISTED  MITHRIDATES.
§  1.  Now,  upon  the  flight  of  Pompey  and  of  the
senate  beyond  the  Ionian  Sea,  C«sar  got  Rome
and  the  empu-e  under  his  j)ower,  and  released
Aristobulus  from  his  bonds.  He  also  committed
two_  legions  to  hun,  and  sent  liim  in  haste  into
Syria,  as  hoping  that  by  his  means  he  should
easUy  conquer  that  country,  and  the  parts  ad-
johiing  to  Judea,  But  envy  prevented  any  effect
of  Aiistobulus's  alacrity  and  the  hopes  of  Cajsar ;
for  he  was  taken  oft'  by  poison  given  him  by  those
of  Pompey's  party  ;  and,  for  a  long  while,  he  had
not  so  much  as  a  burial  vouchsafed  him  in  his
own  country ;  but  his  dead  body  lay  [above
gi'ound,]  preserved  in  honey,  until  it  was  sent  to
tlie  Jews  by  Antony,  in  order  to  be  buried  in
the  royal  sepulchres.
