The Wars of the Jews, 1.514

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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514He presented Herod with splendid gifts, as a bait which he laid in order to compass his ends, and quickly received them back again manifold; yet did he esteem bare gifts as nothing, unless he imbrued the kingdom in blood by his purchases.

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