a tetrarch, would accept of
one of the daughters as a wife to his son. What provoked him also was
this, that all the multitude would so commiserate these fatherless
children, and so hate him [for making them fatherless], that all would
come out, since they were no strangers to his vile disposition towards
his brethren. He contrived, therefore, to overturn his father's
settlements, as thinking it a terrible thing that they should be so
related to him, and be so powerful withal. So Herod yielded to him, and
changed his resolution at his entreaty; and the determination now
was, that Antipater himself should marry Aristobulus's daughter, and
Antipater's son should marry Pheroras's daughter. So the espousals for
the marriages were changed after this manner, even without the king's
real approbation.

3. Now Herod the king had at this time nine wives; one of them
Antipater's mother, and another the high priest's daughter, by whom
he had a son of his own name. He had also one who was his brother's
daughter, and another his sister's daughter; which two had no children.
One of his wives also was of the Samaritan nation, whose sons were
Antipas and Archelaus, and whose daughter was Olympias; which daughter
was afterward married to Joseph, the king's brother's son; but Archelaus
and Antipas were brought up with a certain private man at Rome. Herod
had also to wife Cleopatra of Jerusalem, and by her he had his sons
Herod and Philip; which last was also brought up at Rome. Pallas also
was one of his wives, which bare him his son Phasaelus. And besides
these, he had for his wives Phedra and Elpis, by whom he had his
daughters Roxana and Salome. As for his elder daughters by the same
mother with Alexander and Aristobulus, and whom Pheroras neglected to
marry, he gave the one in marriage to Antipater, the king's sister's
son, and the other to Phasaelus, his brother's son. And this was the
posterity of Herod.

CHAPTER 2. Concerning Zamaris, The Babylonian Jew; Concerning The Plots
Laid By Antipater Against His Father; And Somewhat About The Pharisees.

1. And now it was that Herod, being desirous of securing himself on the
side of the Trachonites, resolved to build a village as large as a city
for the Jews, in the middle of that country, which might make his own
country difficult to be assaulted, and whence he might be at hand to
make sallies upon them, and do them a mischief. Accordingly, when he
understood that there was a m