nest monuments to his brother
Phasaelus, on account of the great natural affection there had been
between them, by erecting a tower in the city itself, not less than the
tower of Pharos, which he named Phasaelus, which was at once a part
of the strong defenses of the city, and a memorial for him that was
deceased, because it bare his name. He also built a city of the same
name in the valley of Jericho, as you go from it northward, whereby he
rendered the neighboring country more fruitful by the cultivation its
inhabitants introduced; and this also he called Phasaelus.

3. But as for his other benefits, it is impossible to reckon them up,
those which he bestowed on cities, both in Syria and in Greece, and
in all the places he came to in his voyages; for he seems to have
conferred, and that after a most plentiful manner, what would minister
to many necessities, and the building of public works, and gave them
the money that was necessary to such works as wanted it, to support them
upon the failure of their other revenues: but what was the greatest and
most illustrious of all his works, he erected Apollo's temple at Rhodes,
at his own expenses, and gave them a great number of talents of silver
for the repair of their fleet. He also built the greatest part of the
public edifices for the inhabitants of Nicopolis, at Actium; [6] and for
the Antiochinus, the inhabitants of the principal city of Syria, where a
broad street cuts through the place lengthways, he built cloisters along
it on both sides, and laid the open road with polished stone, and was
of very great advantage to the inhabitants. And as to the olympic games,
which were in a very low condition, by reason of the failure of their
revenues, he recovered their reputation, and appointed revenues for
heir maintenance, and made that solemn meeting more venerable, as to the
sacrifices and other ornaments; and by reason of this vast liberality,
he was generally declared in their inscriptions to be one of the
perpetual managers of those games.

4. Now some there are who stand amazed at the diversity of Herod's
nature and purposes; for when we have respect to his magnificence, and
the benefits which he bestowed on all mankind, there is no possibility
for even those that had the least respect for him to deny, or not openly
to confess, that he had a nature vastly beneficent; but when any one
looks upon the punishments he inflicted, and the injuries he did, not
only to his subje