which office, when he had held for a year, Gratus deprived him
of it, and gave the high priesthood to Simon, the son of Camithus;
and when he had possessed that dignity no longer than a year, Joseph
Caiaphas was made his successor. When Gratus had done those things,
he went back to Rome, after he had tarried in Judea eleven years, when
Pontius Pilate came as his successor.

3. And now Herod the tetrarch, who was in great favor with Tiberius,
built a city of the same name with him, and called it Tiberias. He built
it in the best part of Galilee, at the lake of Gennesareth. There are
warm baths at a little distance from it, in a village named Emmaus.
Strangers came and inhabited this city; a great number of the
inhabitants were Galileans also; and many were necessitated by Herod
to come thither out of the country belonging to him, and were by force
compelled to be its inhabitants; some of them were persons of condition.
He also admitted poor people, such as those that were collected from all
parts, to dwell in it. Nay, some of them were not quite free-men, and
these he was benefactor to, and made them free in great numbers; but
obliged them not to forsake the city, by building them very good houses
at his own expenses, and by giving them land also; for he was sensible,
that to make this place a habitation was to transgress the Jewish
ancient laws, because many sepulchers were to be here taken away, in
order to make room for the city Tiberias [5] whereas our laws pronounce
that such inhabitants are unclean for seven days. [6]

4. About this time died Phraates, king of the Parthians, by the
treachery of Phraataces his son, upon the occasion following: When
Phraates had had legitimate sons of his own, he had also an Italian
maid-servant, whose name was Thermusa, who had been formerly sent to him
by Julius Caesar, among other presents. He first made her his concubine;
but he being a great admirer of her beauty, in process of time having a
son by her, whose name was Phraataces, he made her his legitimate wife,
and had a great respect for her. Now she was able to persuade him to do
any thing that she said, and was earnest in procuring the government
of Parthia for her son; but still she saw that her endeavors would not
succeed, unless she could contrive how to remove Phraates's legitimate
sons [out of the kingdom;] so she persuaded him to send those his
sons as pledges of his fidelity to Rome; and they were sent to Rome
accor