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Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our fathers.
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As for Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they were causing great damage among the people and to our land; for them we will give you a hundred talents." Athenobius did not answer him a word,
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but returned in wrath to the king and reported to him these words and the splendor of Simon and all that he had seen. And the king was greatly angered.
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Now Trypho embarked on a ship and escaped to Orthosia.
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Then the king made Cendebeus commander-in-chief of the coastal country, and gave him troops of infantry and cavalry.