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 | | Alexandra, and her two sons, here appear helplessly dependent on the king, in contrast with the schemer who had been wife of Aristobulus I. She is sixty-four years old at this time. |
 | | However, the queen also was concerned with the well-being of the kingdom, and got together a great body of mercenary soldiers, and increased her own army to such a degree that she became a terror to the neighboring tyrants and took hostages from among them. |
 | | In the mean time, Alexandra fell sick, and Aristobulus, her younger son, took hold of this opportunity, with his domestics, of which he had a great many, who were all of them his friends, on account of the warmth of their youth, and got possession of all the fortresses. |
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