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

Jerusalem, beloved by every body for the glorious action he had done; for
those who did not before favor him did join themselves to him now, because
of his marriage into the family of Hyrcanus; for as he had formerly married a
wife out of his own country of no ignoble blood, who was called Doris, of
whom he begat Antipater; so did he now marry Mariamne, the daughter of
Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, and the granddaughter of Hyrcanus, and
was become thereby a relation of the king.
4. But when Caesar and Antony had slain Cassius near Philippi, and
Caesar was gone to Italy, and Antony to Asia, amongst the rest of the cities
which sent ambassadors to Antony unto Bithynia, the great men of the Jews
came also, and accused Phasaelus and Herod, that they kept the government
by force, and that Hyrcanus had no more than an honorable name. Herod
appeared ready to answer this accusation; and having made Antony his
friend by the large sums of money which he gave him, he brought him to
such a temper as not to hear the others speak against him; and thus did they
part at this time.
5. However, after this, there came a hundred of the principal men among
the Jews to Daphne by Antioch to Antony, who was already in love with
Cleopatra to the degree of slavery; these Jews put those men that were the
most potent, both in dignity and eloquence, foremost, and accused the
brethren. (2) But Messala opposed them, and defended the brethren, and that
while Hyrcanus stood by him, on account of his relation to them. When
Antony had heard both sides, he asked Hyrcanus which party was the fittest
to govern, who replied that Herod and his party were the fittest. Antony was
glad of that answer, for he had been formerly treated in an hospitable and
obliging manner by his father Antipater, when he marched into Judea with
Gabinius; so he constituted the brethren tetrarchs, and committed to them the
government of Judea.
6. But when the ambassadors had indignation at this procedure, Antony
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