. How Herod Twice Sailed To Agrippa; And How Upon The Complaint
In Ionia Against The Greeks Agrippa Confirmed The Laws To Them.

1. When Herod had despatched these affairs, and he understood that
Marcus Agrippa had sailed again out of Italy into Asia, he made haste to
him, and besought him to come to him into his kingdom, and to partake
of what he might justly expect from one that had been his guest, and was
his friend. This request he greatly pressed, and to it Agrippa agreed,
and came into Judea; whereupon Herod omitted nothing that might please
him. He entertained him in his new-built cities, and showed him the
edifices he had built, and provided all sorts of the best and most
costly dainties for him and his friends, and that at Sebaste and
Cesarea, about that port that he had built, and at the fortresses
which he had erected at great expenses, Alexandrium, and Herodium, and
Hyrcania. He also conducted him to the city Jerusalem, where all
the people met him in their festival garments, and received him with
acclamations. Agrippa also offered a hecatomb of sacrifices to God; and
feasted the people, without omitting any of the greatest dainties that
could be gotten. He also took so much pleasure there, that he abode
many days with them, and would willingly have staid longer, but that the
season of the year made him make haste away; for as winter was coming
on, he thought it not safe to go to sea later, and yet he was of
necessity to return again to Ionia.

2. So Agrippa went away, when Herod had bestowed on him, and on the
principal of those that were with him, many presents; but king Herod,
when he had passed the winter in his own dominions, made haste to get to
him again in the spring, when he knew he designed to go to a campaign at
the Bosptiorus. So when he had sailed by Rhodes and by Cos, he touched
at Lesbos, as thinking he should have overtaken Agrippa there; but he
was taken short here by a north wind, which hindered his ship from going
to the shore; so he continued many days at Chius, and there he kindly
treated a great many that came to him, and obliged them by giving them
royal gifts. And when he saw that the portico of the city was fallen
down, which as it was overthrown in the Mithridatic war, and was very
large and fine building, so was it not so easy to rebuild that as it
was the rest, yet did he furnish a sum not only large enough for that
purpose, but what was more than sufficient to finish the buildi