spicions, in order to his
preservation, he continued to suspect those that were guiltless; nor did
he set any bounds to himself, but supposing that those who staid with
him had the most power to hurt him, they were to him very frightful; and
for those that did not use to come to him, it seemed enough to name them
[to make them suspected], and he thought himself safer when they were
destroyed. And at last his domestics were come to that pass, that being
no way secure of escaping themselves, they fell to accusing one another,
and imagining that he who first accused another was most likely to save
himself; yet when any had overthrown others, they were hated; and they
were thought to suffer justly who unjustly accused others, and they only
thereby prevented their own accusation; nay, they now executed their
own private enmities by this means, and when they were caught, they were
punished in the same way. Thus these men contrived to make use of this
opportunity as an instrument and a snare against their enemies; yet when
they tried it, were themselves caught also in the same snare which they
laid for others: and the king soon repented of what he had done, because
he had no clear evidence of the guilt of those whom he had slain;
and yet what was still more severe in him, he did not make use of his
repentance, in order to leave off doing the like again, but in order to
inflict the same punishment upon their accusers.

3. And in this state of disorder were the affairs of the palace; and
he had already told many of his friends directly that they ought not
to appear before him, her come into the palace; and the reason of this
injunction was, that [when they were there], he had less freedom of
acting, or a greater restraint on himself on their account; for at this
time it was that he expelled Andromachus and Gamellus, men who had of
old been his friends, and been very useful to him in the affairs of his
kingdom, and been of advantage to his family, by their embassages and
counsels; and had been tutors to his sons, and had in a manner the first
degree of freedom with him. He expelled Andromachus, because his son
Demetrius was a companion to Alexander; and Gamellus, because he knew
that he wished him well, which arose from his having been with him in
his youth, when he was at school, and absent at Rome. These he expelled
out of his palace, and was willing enough to have done worse by them;
but that he might not seem to take such libe