and met the king, and pitched his camp in certain straits,

[Drane]

Ea, and gave them what would buy them provisions in their journey. But
he took with him those that were the least encumbered, and were most
intimate with him, and came to the fortress, and placed there his wives
and his followers, being eight hundred in number, there being in the
place a sufficient quantity of corn and water, and other necessaries,
and went directly for Petra, in Arabia. But when it was day, the
Parthians plundered all Jerusalem, and the palace, and abstained from
nothing but Hyrcanus's money, which was three hundred talents. A great
deal of Herod's money escaped, and principally all that the man had been
so provident as to send into Idumea beforehand; nor indeed did what was
in the city suffice the Parthians, but they went out into the country,
and plundered it, and demolished the city Maris
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