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

Chapter 28
How Antipater Is Hated of All Men
1. But an intolerable hatred fell upon Antipater from the nation, though
he had now an indisputable title to the succession, because they all knew that
he was the person who contrived all the calumnies against his brethren.
However, he began to be in a terrible fear, as he saw the posterity of those
that had been slain growing up; for Alexander had two sons by Glaphyra,
Tigranes and Alexander; and Aristobulus had Herod, and Agrippa, and
Aristobulus, his sons, with Herodias and Mariamne, his daughters, and all by
Bernice, Salome's daughter. As for Glaphyra, Herod, as soon as he had killed
Alexander, sent her back, together with her portion, to Cappadocia. He
married Bernice, Aristobulus's daughter, to Antipater's uncle by his mother,
and it was Antipater who, in order to reconcile her to him, when she had
been at variance with him, contrived this match; he also got into Pheroras's
favor, and into the favor of Caesar's friends, by presents, and other ways of
obsequiousness, and sent no small sums of money to Rome; Saturninus also,
and his friends in Syria, were all well replenished with the presents he made
them; yet the more he gave, the more he was hated, as not making these
presents out of generosity, but spending his money out of fear. Accordingly,
it so fell out that the receivers bore him no more good-will than before, but
that those to whom he gave nothing were his more bitter enemies. However,
he bestowed his money every day more and more profusely, on observing
that, contrary to his expectations, the king was taking care about the orphans,
and discovering at the same time his repentance for killing their fathers, by
his commiseration of those that sprang from them.
2. Accordingly, Herod got together his kindred and friends, and set
before them the children, and, with his eyes full of tears, said thus to them:
"It was an unlucky fate that took away from me these children's fathers,
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