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

hospitably he had been treated by Antipater, but more especially on account
of Herod's own virtue; so he then resolved to get him made king of the Jews,
whom he had himself formerly made tetrarch. The contest also that he had
with Antigonus was another inducement, and that of no less weight than the
great regard he had for Herod; for he looked upon Antigonus as a seditious
person, and an enemy of the Romans; and as for Caesar, Herod found him
better prepared than Antony, as remembering very fresh the wars he had
gone through together with his father, the hospitable treatment he had met
with from him, and the entire good-will he had showed to him; besides the
activity which he saw in Herod himself. So he called the senate together,
wherein Messalas, and after him Atratinus, produced Herod before them, and
gave a full account of the merits of his father, and his own good-will to the
Romans. At the same time they demonstrated that Antigonus was their
enemy, not only because he soon quarreled with them, but because he now
overlooked the Romans, and took the government by the means of the
Parthians. These reasons greatly moved the senate; at which juncture Antony
came in, and told them that it was for their advantage in the Parthian war that
Herod should be king; so they all gave their votes for it. And when the senate
was separated, Antony and Caesar went out, with Herod between them;
while the consul and the rest of the magistrates went before them, in order to
offer sacrifices, and to lay the decree in the Capitol. Antony also made a
feast for Herod on the first day of his reign.
Footnote:
1. This Brentesium or Brundusium has coin still preserved, on which is
written, as Spanheim informs us.
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