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

Chapter 12
Antonius Makes Herod and Phasaelus Tetrarchs
1. When Cassius was gone out of Syria, another sedition arose at
Jerusalem, wherein Felix assaulted Phasaelus with an army, that he might
revenge the death of Malichus upon Herod, by falling upon his brother. Now
Herod happened then to be with Fabius, the governor of Damascus, and as he
was going to his brother's assistance, he was detained by sickness; in the
mean time, Phasaelus was by himself too hard for Felix, and reproached
Hyrcanus on account of his ingratitude, both for what assistance he had
afforded Maliehus, and for overlooking Malichus's brother, when he
possessed himself of the fortresses; for he had gotten a great many of them
already, and among them the strongest of them all, Masada.
2. However, nothing could be sufficient for him against the force of
Herod, who, as soon as he was recovered, took the other fortresses again, and
drove him out of Masada in the posture of a supplicant; he also drove away
Marion, the tyrant of the Tyrians, out of Galilee, when he had already
possessed himself of three fortified places; but as to those Tyrians whom he
had caught, he preserved them all alive; nay, some of them he gave presents
to, and so sent them away, and thereby procured good-will to himself from
the city, and hatred to the tyrant. Marion had indeed obtained that tyrannical
power of Cassius, who set tyrants over all Syria (1) and out of hatred to
Herod it was that he assisted Antigonus, the son of Aristobulus, and
principally on Fabius's account, whom Antigonus had made his assistant by
money, and had him accordingly on his side when he made his descent; but it
was Ptolemy, the kinsman of Antigonus, that supplied all that he wanted.
3. When Herod had fought against these in the avenues of Judea, he was
conqueror in the battle, and drove away Antigonus, and returned to
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