from the citadel, and fell down at the feet
of Sosius, who took no pity of him, in the change of his fortune, but
insulted him beyond measure, and called him Antigone [i.e. a woman, and
not a man;] yet did he not treat him as if he were a woman, by letting
him go at liberty, but put him into bonds, and kept him in close
custody.

3. And now Herod having overcome his enemies, his care was to govern
those foreigners who had been his assistants, for the crowd of strangers
rushed to see the temple, and the sacred things in the temple; but the
king, thinking a victory to be a more severe affliction than a defeat,
if any of those things which it was not lawful to see should be seen by
them, used entreaties and threatenings, and even sometimes force itself,
to restrain them. He also prohibited the ravage that was made in the
city, and many times asked Sosius whether the Romans would empty the
city both of money and men, and leave him king of a desert; and told him
that he esteemed the dominion over the whole habitable earth as by no
means an equivalent satisfaction for such a murder of his citizens'; and
when he said that this plunder was justly to be permitted the soldiers
for the siege they had undergone, he replied, that he would give every
one their reward out of his own money; and by this means be redeemed
what remained of the city from destruction; and he performed what he
had promised him, for he gave a noble present to every soldier, and a
proportionable present to their commanders, but a most royal present to
Sosius himself, till they all went away full of money.

4. This destruction befell the city of Jerusalem when Marcus Agrippa
and Caninius Gallus were consuls of Rome [30] on the hundred eighty and
fifth olympiad, on the third month, on the solemnity of the fast, as
if a periodical revolution of calamities had returned since that which
befell the Jews under Pompey; for the Jews were taken by him on the same
day, and this was after twenty-seven years' time. So when Sosius had
dedicated a crown of gold to God, he marched away from Jerusalem, and
carried Antigonus with him in bonds to Antony; but Herod was afraid lest
Antigonus should be kept in prison [only] by Antony, and that when he
was carried to Rome by him, he might get his cause to be heard by the
senate, and might demonstrate, as he was himself of the royal blood, and
Herod but a private man, that therefore it belonged to his sons however
to have the kingdo