ch.5.sect.3, to the very same purpose, but by no means in the same words; whence it appears that the sense was Herod's, but the composition Josephus's.
[31] Since Josephus, both here and in his Antiq.

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ch.7.sect.

3, reckons Gaza, which had been a free city, among the cities given Herod by Augustus, and yet implies that Herod had made Costobarus a governor of it before, Antiq.

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