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

provoke him so to do, insomuch that he can say nothing at all, but it affords
occasion for calumny against him; for that if any mention be made of
nobility of birth, even in other cases, he is abused unjustly, while his father
would say that nobody, to be sure, is of noble birth but Alexander, and that
his father was inglorious for want of such nobility. If they be at any time
hunting, and he says nothing, he gives offense; and if he commends any
body, they take it in way of jest. That they always find their father
unmercifully severe, and have no natural affection for any of them but for
Antipater; on which accounts, if this plot does not take, he is very willing to
die; but that in case he kill his father, he hath sufficient opportunities for
saving himself. In the first place, he hath Archelaus his father-in-law to
whom he can easily fly; and in the next place, he hath Caesar, who had never
known Herod's character to this day; for that he shall not appear then before
him with that dread he used to do when his father was there to terrify him;
and that he will not then produce the accusations that concerned himself
alone, but would, in the first place, openly insist on the calamities of their
nation, and how they are taxed to death, and in what ways of luxury and
wicked practices that wealth is spent which was gotten by bloodshed; what
sort of persons they are that get our riches, and to whom those cities belong
upon whom he bestows his favors; that he would have inquiry made what
became of his grandfather [Hyrcanus], and his mother [Mariamne], and
would openly proclaim the gross wickedness that was in the kingdom; on
which accounts he should not be deemed a parricide.
3. When Eurycles had made this portentous speech, he greatly
commended Antipater, as the only child that had an affection for his father,
and on that account was an impediment to the other's plot against him.
Hereupon the king, who had hardly repressed his anger upon the former
accusations, was exasperated to an incurable degree. At which time Antipater
took another occasion to send in other persons to his father to accuse his
brethren, and to tell him that they had privately discoursed with Jucundus
and Tyrannus, who had once been masters of the horse to the king, but for
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