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

and particularly of the affronts she had offered his daughters; and that she
had supplied the Pharisees with money, by way of rewards for what they had
done against him, and had procured his brother to become his enemy, by
giving him love potions. At length he turned his speech to Pheroras, and told
him that he would give him his choice of these two things: Whether he
would keep in with his brother, or with his wife? And when Pheroras said
that he would die rather than forsake his wife? Herod, not knowing what to
do further in that matter, turned his speech to Antipater, and charged him to
have no intercourse either with Pheroras's wife, or with Pheroras himself, or
with any one belonging to her. Now though Antipater did not transgress that
his injunction publicly, yet did he in secret come to their night meetings; and
because he was afraid that Salome observed what he did, he procured, by the
means of his Italian friends, that he might go and live at Rome; for when
they wrote that it was proper for Antipater to be sent to Caesar for some
time, Herod made no delay, but sent him, and that with a splendid
attendance, and a great deal of money, and gave him his testament to carry
with him, - wherein Antipater had the kingdom bequeathed to him, and
wherein Herod was named for Antipater's successor; that Herod, I mean,
who was the son of Mariarmne, the high priest's daughter.
3. Sylleus also, the Arabian, sailed to Rome, without any regard to
Caesar's injunctions, and this in order to oppose Antipater with all his might,
as to that law-suit which Nicolaus had with him before. This Sylleus had also
a great contest with Aretas his own king; for he had slain many others of
Aretas's friends, and particularly Sohemus, the most potent man in the city
Petra. Moreover, he had prevailed with Phabatus, who was Herod's steward,
by giving him a great sum of money, to assist him against Herod; but when
Herod gave him more, he induced him to leave Syllcus, and by this means he
demanded of him all that Caesar had required of him to pay. But when
Sylleus paid nothing of what he was to pay, and did also accuse Phabatus to
Caesar, and said that he was not a steward for Caesar's advantage, but for
Herod's, Phabatus was angry at him on that account, but was still in very
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