From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus

Chapter 24
The Malice of Antipater and Doris
1. But now the quarrel that was between them still accompanied these
brethren when they parted, and the suspicions they had one of the other grew
worse. Alexander and Aristobulus were much grieved that the privilege of
the first-born was confirmed to Antipater; as was Antipater very angry at his
brethren that they were to succeed him. But then this last being of a
disposition that was mutable and politic, he knew how to hold his tongue,
and used a great deal of cunning, and thereby concealed the hatred he bore to
them; while the former, depending on the nobility of their births, had every
thing upon their tongues which was in their minds. Many also there were
who provoked them further, and many of their [seeming] friends insinuated
themselves into their acquaintance, to spy out what they did. Now every
thing that was said by Alexander was presently brought to Antipater, and
from Antipater it was brought to Herod with additions. Nor could the young
man say any thing in the simplicity of his heart, without giving offense, but
what he said was still turned to calumny against him. And if he had been at
any time a little free in his conversation, great imputations were forged from
the smallest occasions. Antipater also was perpetually setting some to
provoke him to speak, that the lies he raised of him might seem to have some
foundation of truth; and if, among the many stories that were given out, but
one of them could be proved true, that was supposed to imply the rest to be
true also. And as to Antipater's friends, they were all either naturally so
cautious in speaking, or had been so far bribed to conceal their thoughts, that
nothing of these grand secrets got abroad by their means. Nor should one be
mistaken if he called the life of Antipater a mystery of wickedness; for he
either corrupted Alexander's acquaintance with money, or got into their favor
by flatteries; by which two means he gained all his designs, and brought
them to betray their master, and to steal away, and reveal what he either did
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