told you, were the brothers of
Antipater, died childless. As to Alexander, the son of Herod the king,
who was slain by his father, he had two sons, Alexander and Tigranes, by
the daughter of Archelaus, king of Cappadocia. Tigranes, who was king of
Armenia, was accused at Rome, and died childless; Alexander had a son of
the same name with his brother Tigranes, and was sent to take possession
of the kingdom of Armenia by Nero; he had a son, Alexander, who married
Jotape, [17] the daughter of Antiochus, the king of Commagena; Vespasian
made him king of an island in Cilicia. But these descendants of
Alexander, soon after their birth, deserted the Jewish religion, and
went over to that of the Greeks. But for the rest of the daughters
of Herod the king, it happened that they died childless. And as these
descendants of Herod, whom we have enumerated, were in being at the same
time that Agrippa the Great took the kingdom, and I have now given an
account of them, it now remains that I relate the several hard fortunes
which befell Agrippa, and how he got clear of them, and was advanced to
the greatest height of dignity and power.

CHAPTER 6. Of The Navigation Of King Agrippa To Rome, To Tiberius
Caesar; And Now Upon His Being Accused By His Own Freed-Man, He Was
Bound; How Also He, Was Set At Liberty By Caius, After Tiberius's Death
And Was Made King Of The Tetrarchy Of Philip.

1. A Little before the death of Herod the king, Agrippa lived at Rome,
and was generally brought up and conversed with Drusus, the emperor
Tiberius's son, and contracted a friendship with Antonia, the wife of
Drusus the Great, who had his mother Bernice in great esteem, and
was very desirous of advancing her son. Now as Agrippa was by nature
magnanimous and generous in the presents he made, while his mother was
alive, this inclination of his mind did not appear, that he might be
able to avoid her anger for such his extravagance; but when Bernice
was dead, and he was left to his own conduct, he spent a great deal
extravagantly in his daily way of living, and a great deal in the
immoderate presents he made, and those chiefly among Caesar's freed-men,
in order to gain their assistance, insomuch that he was, in a little
time, reduced to poverty, and could not live at Rome any longer.
Tiberius also forbade the friends of his deceased son to come into his
sight, because on seeing them he should be put in mind of his son, and
his grief would thereby be