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  1. Greek control of the eastern
  2. Mediterranean weakened in
  3. the 2nd century BCE as Roman
  4. conquests encroached upon
  5. Seleucid territories. It was not
  6. long before Pompey resolved to
  7. conquer Jerusalem. Pompey
  8. had heard of infighting between
  9. the traditionalist Aristobulus II
  10. and his Hellenist brother, the
  11. High Priest Hyracanus, the sib-
  12. ling heirs to the Hasmonean
  13. kingdom.
  14.