revived.

2. For these reasons he went away from Rome, and sailed to Judea, but in
evil circumstances, being dejected with the loss of that money which he
once had, and because he had not wherewithal to pay his creditors, who
were many in number, and such as gave him no room for escaping
them. Whereupon he knew not what to do; so, for shame of his present
condition, he retired to a certain tower, at Malatha, in Idumea, and
had thoughts of killing himself; but his wife Cypros perceived his
intentions, and tried all sorts of methods to divert him from his taking
such a course; so she sent a letter to his sister Herodias, who was
now the wife of Herod the tetrarch, and let her know Agrippa's present
design, and what necessity it was which drove him thereto, and desired
her, as a kinswoman of his, to give him her help, and to engage her
husband to do the same, since she saw how she alleviated these her
husband's troubles all she could, although she had not the like wealth
to do it withal. So they sent for him, and allotted him Tiberias for his
habitation, and appointed him some income of money for his maintenance,
and made him a magistrate of that city, by way of honor to him. Yet did
not Herod long continue in that resolution of supporting him, though
even that support was not sufficient for him; for as once they were at
a feast at Tyre, and in their cups, and reproaches were cast upon one
another, Agrippa thought that was not to be borne, while Herod hit him
in the teeth with his poverty, and with his owing his necessary food
to him. So he went to Flaccus, one that had been consul, and had been
a very great friend to him at Rome formerly, and was now president of
Syria.

3. Hereupon Flaccus received him kindly, and he lived with him. Flaccus
had also with him there Aristobulus, who was indeed Agrippa's brother,
but was at variance with him; yet did not their enmity to one another
hinder the friendship of Flaccus to them both, but still they were
honorably treated by him. However, Aristobulus did not abate of his
ill-will to Agrippa, till at length he brought him into ill terms with
Flaccus; the occasion of bringing on which estrangement was this: The
Damascens were at difference with the Sidonians about their limits, and
when Flaccus was about to hear the cause between them, they understood
that Agrippa had a mighty influence upon him; so they desired that he
would be of their side, and for that favor promised him a gre