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

furniture, he might conceal the money he had used in hiring men [to write
the letters]; for he brought in an account of his expenses, amounting to two
hundred talents, his main pretense for which was file law-suit he had been in
with Sylleus. So while all his rogueries, even those of a lesser sort also, were
covered by his greater villainy, while all the examinations by torture
proclaimed his attempt to murder his father, and the letters proclaimed his
second attempt to murder his brethren; yet did no one of those that came to
Rome inform him of his misfortunes in Judea, although seven months had
intervened between his conviction and his return, so great was the hatred
which they all bore to him. And perhaps they were the ghosts of those
brethren of his that had been murdered that stopped the mouths of those that
intended to have told him. He then wrote from Rome, and informed his
[friends] that he would soon come to them, and how he was dismissed with
honor by Caesar.
3. Now the king, being desirous to get this plotter against him into his
hands, and being also afraid lest he should some way come to the knowledge
how his affairs stood, and be upon his guard, he dissembled his anger in his
epistle to him, as in other points he wrote kindly to him, and desired him to
make haste, because if he came quickly, he would then lay aside the
complaints he had against his mother; for Antipater was not ignorant that his
mother had been expelled out of the palace. However, he had before received
a letter, which contained an account of the death of Pheroras, at Tarentum,
(1) and made great lamentations at it; for which some commended him, as
being for his own uncle; though probably this confusion arose on account of
his having thereby failed in his plot [on his father's life]; and his tears were
more for the loss of him that was to have been subservient therein, than for
[an uncle] Pheroras: moreover, a sort of fear came upon him as to his
designs, lest the poison should have been discovered. However, when he was
in Cilicia, he received the forementioned epistle from his father, and made
great haste accordingly. But when he had sailed to Celenderis, a suspicion
came into his mind relating to his mother's misfortunes; as if his soul
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