kill herself, because she fell upon her feet; by which means,
when the king had comforted her, and had promised her and her domestics
pardon, upon condition of their concealing nothing of the truth from
him, but had threatened her with the utmost miseries if she proved
ungrateful [and concealed any thing]: so she promised, and swore that
she would speak out every thing, and tell after what manner every thing
was done; and said what many took to be entirely true, that the potion
was brought out of Egypt by Antiphilus; and that his brother, who was a
physician, had procured it; and that "when Thendion brought it us, she
kept it upon Pheroras's committing it to her; and that it was prepared
by Antipater for thee. When, therefore, Pheroras was fallen sick, and
thou camest to him and tookest care of him, and when he saw the kindness
thou hadst for him, his mind was overborne thereby. So he called me to
him, and said to me, 'O woman! Antipater hath circumvented me in
this affair of his father and my brother, by persuading me to have a
murderous intention to him, and procuring a potion to be subservient
thereto; do thou, therefore, go and fetch my potion, [since my brother
appears to have still the same virtuous disposition towards me which he
had formerly, and I do not expect to live long myself, and that I may
not defile my forefathers by the murder of a brother,] and burn it
before my face:' that accordingly she immediately brought it, and did
as her husband bade her; and that she burnt the greatest part of the
potion; but that a little of it was left, that if the king, after
Pheroras's death, should treat her ill, she might poison herself, and
thereby get clear of her miseries." Upon her saying thus, she brought
out the potion, and the box in which it was, before them all. Nay, there
was another brother of Antiphilus, and his mother also, who, by the
extremity of pain and torture, confessed the same things, and owned the
box [to be that which had been brought out of Egypt]. The high priest's
daughter also, who was the king's wife, was accused to have been
conscious of all this, and had resolved to conceal it; for which reason
Herod divorced her, and blotted her son out of his testament, wherein he
had been mentioned as one that was to reign after him; and he took the
high priesthood away from his father-in-law, Simeon the son of Boethus,
and appointed Matthias the son of Theophilus, who was born at Jerusalem,
to be high prie