enough to govern a kingdom.
And both Antipater and Herod came to their greatness by reason of his
mildness; and at last he met with such an end from them as was not
agreeable either to justice or piety.

5. Now Herod, as soon as he had put Hyrcanus out of the way, made haste
to Caesar; and because he could not have any hopes of kindness from him,
on account of the friendship he had for Antony, he had a suspicion of
Alexandra, lest she should take this opportunity to bring the multitude
to a revolt, and introduce a sedition into the affairs of the kingdom;
so he committed the care of every thing to his brother Pheroras, and
placed his mother Cypros, and his sister [Salome], and the whole family
at Masada, and gave him a charge, that if he should hear any sad news
about him, he should take care of the government. But as to Mariamne his
wife, because of the misunderstanding between her and his sister, and
his sister's mother, which made it impossible for them to live together,
he placed her at Alexandrium, with Alexandra her mother, and left his
treasurer Joseph and Sohemus of Iturea to take care of that fortress.
These two had been very faithful to him from the beginning, and were now
left as a guard to the women. They also had it in charge, that if they
should hear any mischief had befallen him, they should kill them both,
and, as far as they were able, to preserve the kingdom for his sons, and
for his brother Pheroras.

6. When he had given them this charge, he made haste to Rhodes, to meet
Caesar; and when he had sailed to that city, he took off his diadem, but
remitted nothing else of his usual dignity. And when, upon his meeting
him, he desired that he would let him speak to him, he therein exhibited
a much more noble specimen of a great soul; for he did not betake
himself to supplications, as men usually do upon such occasions, nor
offered him any petition, as if he were an offender; but, after an
undaunted manner, gave an account of what he had done; for he spake thus
to Caesar: That he had the greatest friendship for Antony, and did every
thing he could that he might attain the government; that he was not
indeed in the army with him, because the Arabians had diverted him; but
that he had sent him both money and corn, which was but too little in
comparison of what he ought to have done for him; "for if a man owns
himself to be another's friend, and knows him to be a benefactor, he is
obliged to hazard every thing,