From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes to the Death of Herod the Great - Flavius Josephus
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Footnotes:<br />
1. These daughters <strong>of</strong> <strong>Herod</strong>, whom Pheroras's wife affronted, were<br />
Salome and Roxana, two virgins, who were born <strong>to</strong> him <strong>of</strong> his two<br />
wives, Elpide and Phedra. See <strong>Herod</strong>'s genealogy, Antiq. B. XVII. ch. 1.<br />
sect. 3.<br />
2. This strange obstinacy <strong>of</strong> Pheroras in retaining his wife, who was one <strong>of</strong><br />
a low family, and refusing <strong>to</strong> marry one nearly related <strong>to</strong> <strong>Herod</strong>, though<br />
he so earnestly desired it, as also that wife's admission <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> counsels <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r great court ladies, <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>Herod</strong>'s own importunity as <strong>to</strong><br />
Pheroras's divorce and o<strong>the</strong>r marriage, all so remarkable here, or in <strong>the</strong><br />
Antiquities XVII. ch. 2. sect. 4; and ch. 3. be well accounted for, but on<br />
<strong>the</strong> supposal that Pheroras believed, and <strong>Herod</strong> suspected, that <strong>the</strong><br />
Pharisees' prediction, as if <strong>the</strong> crown <strong>of</strong> Judea should be translated from<br />
<strong>Herod</strong> <strong>to</strong> Pheroras's posterity and that most probably <strong>to</strong> Pheroras's<br />
posterity <strong>by</strong> this his wife, also would prove true. See Antiq. B. XVII. ch.<br />
2. sect. 4; and ch. 3. sect. 1.<br />
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