tribute of one
hundred talents to Philip; but Idumea, and Judea, and the country of
Samaria paid tribute to Archelaus, but had now a fourth part of
that tribute taken off by the order of Caesar, who decreed them that
mitigation, because they did not join in this revolt with the rest of
the multitude. There were also certain of the cities which paid tribute
to Archelaus: Strato's Tower and Sebaste, with Joppa and Jerusalem;
for as to Gaza, and Gadara, and Hippos, they were Grecian cities, which
Caesar separated from his government, and added them to the province of
Syria. Now the tribute-money that came to Archelaus every year from his
own dominions amounted to six hundred talents.

5. And so much came to Herod's sons from their father's inheritance. But
Salome, besides what her brother left her by his testament, which were
Jamnia, and Ashdod, and Phasaelis, and five hundred thousand [drachmae]
of coined silver, Caesar made her a present of a royal habitation at
Askelo; in all, her revenues amounted to sixty talents by the year, and
her dwelling-house was within Archelaus's government. The rest also
of the king's relations received what his testament allotted them.
Moreover, Caesar made a present to each of Herod's two virgin daughters,
besides what their father left them, of two hundred and fifty thousand
[drachmae] of silver, and married them to Pheroras's sons: he also
granted all that was bequeathed to himself to the king's sons, which was
one thousand five hundred talents, excepting a few of the vessels, which
he reserved for himself; and they were acceptable to him, not so much
for the great value they were of, as because they were memorials of the
king to him.

CHAPTER 12. Concerning A Spurious Alexander.

1. When these affairs had been thus settled by Caesar, a certain young
man, by birth a Jew, but brought up by a Roman freed-man in the city
Sidon, ingrafted himself into the kindred of Herod, by the resemblance
of his countenance, which those that saw him attested to be that
of Alexander, the son of Herod, whom he had slain; and this was an
incitement to him to endeavor to obtain the government; so he took
to him as an assistant a man of his own country, [one that was well
acquainted with the affairs of the palace, but, on other accounts,
an ill man, and one whose nature made him capable of causing great
disturbances to the public, and one that became a teacher of such
a mischievous contrivance to th