her and the benefactor of him
who, by the prediction, was foretold to be their appointed king; for
that this king would have all things in his power, and would enable
Bagoas to marry, and to have children of his own body begotten.

CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Enmity Between Herod And Pheroras; How Herod
Sent Antipater To Caesar; And Of The Death Of Pheroras.

1. When Herod had punished those Pharisees who had been convicted of the
foregoing crimes, he gathered an assembly together of his friends, and
accused Pheroras's wife; and ascribing the abuses of the virgins to
the impudence of that woman, brought an accusation against her for the
dishonor she had brought upon them: that she had studiously introduced a
quarrel between him and his brother, and, by her ill temper, had brought
them into a state of war, both by her words and actions; that the fines
which he had laid had not been paid, and the offenders had escaped
punishment by her means; and that nothing which had of late been done
had been done without her; "for which reason Pheroras would do well,
if he would of his own accord, and by his own command, and not at my
entreaty, or as following my opinion, put this his wife away, as one
that will still be the occasion of war between thee and me. And now,
Pheroras, if thou valuest thy relation to me, put this wife of thine
away; for by this means thou wilt continue to be a brother to me, and
wilt abide in thy love to me." Then said Pheroras, [although he was
pressed hard by the former words,] that as he would not do so unjust
a thing as to renounce his brotherly relation to him, so would he not
leave off his affection for his wife; that he would rather choose to
die than to live, and be deprived of a wife that was so dear unto him.
Hereupon Herod put off his anger against Pheroras on these accounts,
although he himself thereby underwent a very uneasy punishment. However,
he forbade Antipater and his mother to have any conversation with
Pheroras, and bid them to take care to avoid the assemblies of the
women; which they promised to do, but still got together when occasion
served, and both Ptieroras and Antipater had their own merry meetings.
The report went also, that Antipater had criminal conversation with
Pheroras's wife, and that they were brought together by Antipater's
mother.

2. But Antipater had now a suspicion of his father, and was afraid that
the effects of his hatred to him might increase; so he wrot