the rest
of the multitude. Yet did not he deceive Caesar; for although there was
a resemblance between him and Alexander, yet was it not so exact as
to impose on such as were prudent in discerning; for this spurious
Alexander had his hands rough, by the labors he had been put to and
instead of that softness of body which the other had, and this as
derived from his delicate and generous education, this man, for the
contrary reason, had a rugged body. When, therefore, Caesar saw how the
master and the scholar agreed in this lying story, and in a bold way of
talking, he inquired about Aristobulus, and asked what became of him who
[it seems] was stolen away together with him, and for what reason it
was that he did not come along with him, and endeavor to recover that
dominion which was due to his high birth also. And when he said that he
had been left in the isle of Crete, for fear of the dangers of the sea,
that, in case any accident should come to himself, the posterity of
Mariamne might not utterly perish, but that Aristobulus might survive,
and punish those that laid such treacherous designs against them; and
when he persevered in his affirmations, and the author of the imposture
agreed in supporting it, Caesar took the young man by himself, and said
to him, "If thou wilt not impose upon me, thou shalt have this for thy
reward, that thou shalt escape with thy life; tell me, then, who thou
art, and who it was that had boldness enough to contrive such a cheat as
this. For this contrivance is too considerable a piece of villainy to be
undertaken by one of thy age." Accordingly, because he had no other way
to take, he told Caesar the contrivance, and after what manner and
by whom it was laid together. So Caesar, upon observing the spurious
Alexander to be a strong active man, and fit to work with his hands,
that he might not break his promise to him, put him among those that
were to row among the mariners, but slew him that induced him to do
what he had done; for as for the people of Melos, he thought them
sufficiently punished, in having thrown away so much of their money upon
this spurious Alexander. And such was the ignominious conclusion of this
bold contrivance about the spurious Alexander.

CHAPTER 13. How Archelaus Upon A Second Accusation, Was Banished To
Vienna.

1. When Archelaus was entered on his ethnarchy, and was come into Judea,
he accused Joazar, the son of Boethus, of assisting the seditious, and