“Now Cleopatra had put to death all her kindred, till no one near her in blood remained alive, and after that she fell a slaying those no way related to her. So she calumniated the principal men among the Syrians to Antony, and persuaded him to have them slain, that so she might easily gain to be mistress of what they had; nay, she extended her avaricious humor to the Jews and Arabians, taken with him.”
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Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged (Kindle Locations 25838-25850). www.DelmarvaPublications.com. Kindle Edition.
Titus Flavius Josephus (... 37 – c. 100), ... born Yosef ben Matityahu ... was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian who was born in Jerusalem—then part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry. ... Josephus recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the first century CE and the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70 CE),[8] including the siege of Masada. His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus