st in his room.

3. While this was doing, Bathyllus also, Antipater's freed-man, came
from Rome, and, upon the torture, was found to have brought another
potion, to give it into the hands of Antipater's mother, and of
Pheroras, that if the former potion did not operate upon the king,
this at least might carry him off. There came also letters from Herod's
friends at Rome, by the approbation and at the suggestion of Antipater,
to accuse Archelaus and Philip, as if they calumniated their father on
account of the slaughter of Alexander and Aristobulus, and as if they
commiserated their deaths, and as if, because they were sent for home,
[for their father had already recalled them,] they concluded they were
themselves also to be destroyed. These letters had been procured by
great rewards by Antipater's friends; but Antipater himself wrote to his
father about them, and laid the heaviest things to their charge; yet did
he entirely excuse them of any guilt, and said they were but young
men, and so imputed their words to their youth. But he said that he had
himself been very busy in the affair relating to Sylleus, and in getting
interest among the great men; and on that account had bought splendid
ornaments to present them withal, which cost him two hundred talents.
Now one may wonder how it came about, that while so many accusations
were laid against him in Judea during seven months before this time, he
was not made acquainted with any of them. The causes of which were, that
the roads were exactly guarded, and that men hated Antipater; for there
was nobody who would run any hazard himself to gain him any advantages.

CHAPTER 5. Antipater's Navigation From Rome To His Father; And How He
Was Accused By Nicolaus Of Damascus And Condemned To Die By His Father,
And By Quintilius Varus, Who Was Then President Of Syria; And How He Was
Then Bound Till Caesar Should Be Informed Of His Cause.

1. Now Herod, upon Antipater's writing to him, that having done all that
he was to do, and this in the manner he was to do it, he would suddenly
come to him, concealed his anger against him, and wrote back to him, and
bid him not delay his journey, lest any harm should befall himself in
his absence. At the same time also he made some little complaint about
his mother, but promised that he would lay those complaints aside when
he should return. He withal expressed his entire affection for him, as
fearing lest he should have some suspicion o