; upon which Hyrcanus fled
into the citadel, where Aristobulus's wife and children were imprisoned
by their mother, as we have said already, and attacked and overcame
those his adversaries that had fled thither, and lay within the walls of
the temple. So when he had sent a message to his brother about agreeing
the matters between them, he laid aside his enmity to him on these
conditions, that Aristobulus should be king, that he should live without
intermeddling with public affairs, and quietly enjoy the estate he had
acquired. When they had agreed upon these terms in the temple, and had
confirmed the agreement with oaths, and the giving one another their
right hands, and embracing one another in the sight of the whole
multitude, they departed; the one, Aristobulus, to the palace; and
Hyrcanus, as a private man, to the former house of Aristobulus.

3. But there was a certain friend of Hyrcanus, an Idumean, called
Antipater, who was very rich, and in his nature an active and a
seditious man; who was at enmity with Aristobulus, and had differences
with him on account of his good-will to Hyrcanus. It is true that
Nicolatls of Damascus says, that Antipater was of the stock of the
principal Jews who came out of Babylon into Judea; but that assertion
of his was to gratify Herod, who was his son, and who, by certain
revolutions of fortune, came afterward to be king of the Jews, whose
history we shall give you in its proper place hereafter. However, this
Antipater was at first called Antipas, [2] and that was his father's
name also; of whom they relate this: That king Alexander and his wife
made him general of all Idumea, and that he made a league of friendship
with those Arabians, and Gazites, and Ascalonites, that were of his own
party, and had, by many and large presents, made them his fast
friends. But now this younger Antipater was suspicious of the power of
Aristobulus, and was afraid of some mischief he might do him, because of
his hatred to him; so he stirred up the most powerful of the Jews, and
talked against him to them privately; and said that it was unjust to
overlook the conduct of Aristobulus, who had gotten the government
unrighteously, and ejected his brother out of it, who was the elder, and
ought to retain what belonged to him by prerogative of his birth. And
the same speeches he perpetually made to Hyrcanus; and told him that his
own life would be in danger, unless he guarded himself, and got shut
of Aristobu