government, he should not want the ability of rewarding their kindness
to him and that it should be his endeavor, as to all things wherein
they were concerned, to prove in every respect better than his father.
Whereupon the multitude, as it is usual with them, supposed that
the first days of those that enter upon such governments declare the
intentions of those that accept them; and so by how much Archelaus spake
the more gently and civilly to them, by so much did they more highly
commend him, and made application to him for the grant of what they
desired. Some made a clamor that he would ease them of some of their
annual payments; but others desired him to release those that were put
into prison by Herod, who were many, and had been put there at several
times; others of them required that he would take away those taxes
which had been severely laid upon what was publicly sold and bought.
So Archelaus contradicted them in nothing, since he pretended to do all
things so as to get the good-will of the multitude to him, as looking
upon that good-will to be a great step towards his preservation of the
government. Hereupon he went and offered sacrifice to God, and then
betook himself to feast with his friends.

CHAPTER 9. How The People Raised A Sedition Against Archelaus, And How
He Sailed To Rome.

1. At this time also it was that some of the Jews got together out of a
desire of innovation. They lamented Matthias, and those that were
slain with him by Herod, who had not any respect paid them by a funeral
mourning, out of the fear men were in of that man; they were those who
had been condemned for pulling down the golden eagle. The people made
a great clamor and lamentation hereupon, and cast out some reproaches
against the king also, as if that tended to alleviate the miseries of
the deceased. The people assembled together, and desired of Archelaus,
that, in way of revenge on their account, he would inflict punishment
on those who had been honored by Herod; and that, in the first and
principal place, he would deprive that high priest whom Herod had made,
and would choose one more agreeable to the law, and of greater purity,
to officiate as high priest. This was granted by Archelaus, although
he was mightily offended at their importunity, because he proposed to
himself to go to Rome immediately to look after Caesar's determination
about him. However, he sent the general of his forces to use
persuasions, and to tel