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

great esteem with Herod, and discovered Sylleus's grand secrets, and told the
king that Sylleus had corrupted Corinthus, one of the guards of his body, by
bribing him, and of whom he must therefore have a care. Accordingly, the
king complied; for this Corinthus, though he was brought up in Herod's
kingdom, yet was he by birth an Arabian; so the king ordered him to be taken
up immediately, and not only him, but two other Arabians, who were caught
with him; the one of them was Sylleus's friend, the other the head of a tribe.
These last, being put to the torture, confessed that they had prevailed with
Corinthus, for a large sum of money, to kill Herod; and when they had been
further examined before Saturninus, the president of Syria, they were sent to
Rome.
4. However, Herod did not leave off importuning Pheroras, but
proceeded to force him to put away his wife; (2) yet could he not devise any
way by which he could bring the woman herself to punishment, although he
had many causes of hatred to her; till at length he was in such great
uneasiness at her, that he cast both her and his brother out of his kingdom.
Pheroras took this injury very patiently, and went away into his own
tetrarchy, [Perea beyond Jordan,] and sware that there should be but one end
put to his flight, and that should be Herod's death; and that he would never
return while he was alive. Nor indeed would he return when his brother was
sick, although he earnestly sent for him to come to him, because he had a
mind to leave some injunctions with him before he died; but Herod
unexpectedly recovered. A little afterward Pheroras himself fell sick, when
Herod showed great moderation; for he came to him, and pitied his case, and
took care of him; but his affection for him did him no good, for Pheroras
died a little afterward. Now though Herod had so great an affection for him
to the last day of his life, yet was a report spread abroad that he had killed
him by poison. However, he took care to have his dead body carried to
Jerusalem, and appointed a very great mourning to the whole nation for him,
and bestowed a most pompous funeral upon him. And this was the end that
one of Alexander's and Aristobulus's murderers came to.
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