From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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Chapter 28<br />
How Antipater Is Hated <strong>of</strong> All Men<br />
1. But an in<strong>to</strong>lerable hatred fell upon Antipater from <strong>the</strong> nation, though<br />
he had now an indisputable title <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> succession, because <strong>the</strong>y all knew that<br />
he was <strong>the</strong> person who contrived all <strong>the</strong> calumnies against his brethren.<br />
However, he began <strong>to</strong> be in a terrible fear, as he saw <strong>the</strong> posterity <strong>of</strong> those<br />
that had been slain growing up; for Alexander had two sons <strong>by</strong> Glaphyra,<br />
Tigranes and Alexander; and Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus had <strong>Herod</strong>, and Agrippa, and<br />
Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus, his sons, with <strong>Herod</strong>ias and Mariamne, his daughters, and all <strong>by</strong><br />
Bernice, Salome's daughter. As for Glaphyra, <strong>Herod</strong>, as soon as he had killed<br />
Alexander, sent her back, <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r with her portion, <strong>to</strong> Cappadocia. He<br />
married Bernice, Aris<strong>to</strong>bulus's daughter, <strong>to</strong> Antipater's uncle <strong>by</strong> his mo<strong>the</strong>r,<br />
and it was Antipater who, in order <strong>to</strong> reconcile her <strong>to</strong> him, when she had<br />
been at variance with him, contrived this match; he also got in<strong>to</strong> Pheroras's<br />
favor, and in<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> favor <strong>of</strong> Caesar's friends, <strong>by</strong> presents, and o<strong>the</strong>r ways <strong>of</strong><br />
obsequiousness, and sent no small sums <strong>of</strong> money <strong>to</strong> Rome; Saturninus also,<br />
and his friends in Syria, were all well replenished with <strong>the</strong> presents he made<br />
<strong>the</strong>m; yet <strong>the</strong> more he gave, <strong>the</strong> more he was hated, as not making <strong>the</strong>se<br />
presents out <strong>of</strong> generosity, but spending his money out <strong>of</strong> fear. Accordingly,<br />
it so fell out that <strong>the</strong> receivers bore him no more good-will than before, but<br />
that those <strong>to</strong> whom he gave nothing were his more bitter enemies. However,<br />
he bes<strong>to</strong>wed his money every day more and more pr<strong>of</strong>usely, on observing<br />
that, contrary <strong>to</strong> his expectations, <strong>the</strong> king was taking care about <strong>the</strong> orphans,<br />
and discovering at <strong>the</strong> same time his repentance for killing <strong>the</strong>ir fa<strong>the</strong>rs, <strong>by</strong><br />
his commiseration <strong>of</strong> those that sprang from <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
2. Accordingly, <strong>Herod</strong> got <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r his kindred and friends, and set<br />
before <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> children, and, with his eyes full <strong>of</strong> tears, said thus <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>m:<br />
"It was an unlucky fate that <strong>to</strong>ok away from me <strong>the</strong>se children's fa<strong>the</strong>rs,<br />
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