at deal
of money; so he was zealous in assisting the Damascens as far as he was
able. Now Aristobulus had gotten intelligence of this promise of
money to him, and accused him to Flaccus of the same; and when, upon
a thorough examination of the matter, it appeared plainly so to be, he
rejected Agrippa out of the number of his friends. So he was reduced
to the utmost necessity, and came to Ptolemais; and because he knew not
where else to get a livelihood, he thought to sail to Italy; but as he
was restrained from so doing by want of money, he desired Marsyas, who
was his freed-man, to find some method for procuring him so much as
he wanted for that purpose, by borrowing such a sum of some person or
other. So Marsyas desired of Peter, who was the freed-man of Bernice,
Agrippa's mother, and by the right of her testament was bequeathed to
Antonia, to lend so much upon Agrippa's own bond and security; but he
accused Agrippa of having defrauded him of certain sums of money, and
so obliged Marsyas, when he made the bond of twenty thousand Attic
drachmae, to accept of twenty-five hundred drachma as [18] less than
what he desired, which the other allowed of, because he could not help
it. Upon the receipt of this money, Agrippa came to Anthedon, and took
shipping, and was going to set sail; but Herennius Capito, who was the
procurator of Jamhis, sent a band of soldiers to demand of him three
hundred thousand drachmae of silver, which were by him owing to Caesar's
treasury while he was at Rome, and so forced him to stay. He then
pretended that he would do as he bid him; but when night came on, he
cut his cables, and went off, and sailed to Alexandria, where he desired
Alexander the alabarch [19] to lend him two hundred thousand drachmae;
but he said he would not lend it to him, but would not refuse it to
Cypros, as greatly astonished at her affection to her husband, and
at the other instances of her virtue; so she undertook to repay it.
Accordingly, Alexander paid them five talents at Alexandria, and
promised to pay them the rest of that sum at Dicearchia [Puteoli]; and
this he did out of the fear he was in that Agrippa would soon spend it.
So this Cypros set her husband free, and dismissed him to go on with his
navigation to Italy, while she and her children departed for Judea.

4. And now Agrippa was come to Puteoli, whence he wrote a letter to
Tiberius Caesar, who then lived at Capreae, and told him that he was
come so far in or