From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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should be no longer <strong>to</strong>rtured]. When he had agreed <strong>to</strong> this, he said that his<br />
fa<strong>the</strong>r, at <strong>the</strong> persuasion <strong>of</strong> Alexander, had an intention <strong>to</strong> kill him. Now<br />
some said this was forged, in order <strong>to</strong> free his fa<strong>the</strong>r from his <strong>to</strong>rments; and<br />
some said it was true.<br />
6. And now <strong>Herod</strong> accused <strong>the</strong> captains and Tero in an assembly <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
people, and brought <strong>the</strong> people <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r in a body against <strong>the</strong>m; and<br />
accordingly <strong>the</strong>re were <strong>the</strong>y put <strong>to</strong> death, <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r with [Trypho] <strong>the</strong> barber;<br />
<strong>the</strong>y were killed <strong>by</strong> <strong>the</strong> pieces <strong>of</strong> wood and <strong>the</strong> s<strong>to</strong>nes that were thrown at<br />
<strong>the</strong>m. He also sent his sons <strong>to</strong> Sebaste, a city not far from Cesarea, and<br />
ordered <strong>the</strong>m <strong>to</strong> be <strong>the</strong>re strangled; and as what he had ordered was executed<br />
immediately, so he commanded that <strong>the</strong>ir dead bodies should be brought <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> fortress Alexandrium, <strong>to</strong> be buried with Alexander, <strong>the</strong>ir grandfa<strong>the</strong>r <strong>by</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r's side. And this was <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> Alexander and Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus.<br />
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