er induced Herod to increase the women's tortures,
till thereby all was discovered; their merry meetings, their secret
assemblies, and the disclosing of what he had said to his son alone unto
Pheroras's [4] women. [Now what Herod had charged Antipater to conceal,
was the gift of a hundred talents to him not to have any conversation
with Pheroras.] And what hatred he bore to his father; and that he
complained to his mother how very long his father lived; and that he was
himself almost an old man, insomuch that if the kingdom should come to
him, it would not afford him any great pleasure; and that there were
a great many of his brothers, or brothers' children, bringing up, that
might have hopes of the kingdom as well as himself, all which made his
own hopes of it uncertain; for that even now, if he should himself not
live, Herod had ordained that the government should be conferred, not on
his son, but rather on a brother. He also had accused the king of great
barbarity, and of the slaughter of his sons; and that it was out of
the fear he was under, lest he should do the like to him, that made him
contrive this his journey to Rome, and Pheroras contrive to go to his
own tetrarchy. [5]

2. These confessions agreed with what his sister had told him, and
tended greatly to corroborate her testimony, and to free her from the
suspicion of her unfaithfulness to him. So the king having satisfied
himself of the spite which Doris, Antipater's mother, as well as
himself, bore to him, took away from her all her fine ornaments, which
were worth many talents, and then sent her away, and entered into
friendship with Pheroras's women. But he who most of all irritated the
king against his son was one Antipater, the procurator of Antipater the
king's son, who, when he was tortured, among other things, said that
Antipater had prepared a deadly potion, and given it to Pheroras, with
his desire that he would give it to his father during his absence, and
when he was too remote to have the least suspicion cast upon him thereto
relating; that Antiphilus, one of Antipater's friends, brought that
potion out of Egypt; and that it was sent to Pheroras by Thendion, the
brother of the mother of Antipater, the king's son, and by that means
came to Pheroras's wife, her husband having given it her to keep. And
when the king asked her about it, she confessed it; and as she was
running to fetch it, she threw herself down from the house-top; yet did
she not