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

were not born till he was king. But then what was stronger than all this was
the love that he bare to Mariamne, and which inflamed him every day to a
great degree, and so far conspired with the other motives, that he felt no
other troubles, on account of her he loved so entirely. But Mariamne's hatred
to him was not inferior to his love to her. She had indeed but too just a cause
of indignation from what he had done, while her boldness proceeded from
his affection to her; so she openly reproached him with what he had done to
her grandfather Hyrcanus, and to her brother Aristobulus; for he had not
spared this Aristobulus, though he were but a child; for when he had given
him the high priesthood at the age of seventeen, he slew him quickly after he
had conferred that dignity upon him; but when Aristobulus had put on the
holy vestments, and had approached to the altar at a festival, the multitude, in
great crowds, fell into tears; whereupon the child was sent by night to
Jericho, and was there dipped by the Galls, at Herod's command, in a pool
till he was drowned.
3. For these reasons Mariamne reproached Herod, and his sister and
mother, after a most contumelious manner, while he was dumb on account of
his affection for her; yet had the women great indignation at her, and raised a
calumny against her, that she was false to his bed; which thing they thought
most likely to move Herod to anger. They also contrived to have many other
circumstances believed, in order to make the thing more credible, and
accused her of having sent her picture into Egypt to Antony, and that her lust
was so extravagant, as to have thus showed herself, though she was absent,
to a man that ran mad after women, and to a man that had it in his power to
use violence to her. This charge fell like a thunderbolt upon Herod, and put
him into disorder; and that especially, because his love to her occasioned him
to be jealous, and because he considered with himself that Cleopatra was a
shrewd woman, and that on her account Lysanias the king was taken off, as
well as Malichus the Arabian; for his fear did not only extend to the
dissolving of his marriage, but to the danger of his life.
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