Note 121 — Chapter XVIII · CLEOPATRA’S ATTEMPT TO BEGIN AGAIN.
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In a very similar manner Herod, who had taken the part of Antony and who now feared that Octavian would dethrone him in favour of the earlier sovereign, Hyrcanus, put that claimant to death, so that Octavian, as Josephus indicates, should not find it easy to fill Herod’s place.