grippa, and made him a
supper. But as they were feasting, and the cups went about, there came
one who said that Tiberius was still alive, and would return to the city
ill a few days. At which news the centurion was exceedingly troubled,
because he had done what might cost him his life, to have treated so
joyfully a prisoner, and this upon the news of the death of Caesar; so
he thrust Agrippa from the couch whereon he lay, and said, "Dost thou
think to cheat me by a lie about the emperor without punishment? and
shalt not thou pay for this thy malicious report at the price of thine
head?" When he had so said, he ordered Agrippa to be bound again,
[for he had loosed him before,] and kept a severer guard over him than
formerly, and in that evil condition was Agrippa that night; but the
next day the rumor increased in the city, and confirmed the news that
Tiberius was certainly dead; insomuch that men durst now openly and
freely talk about it; nay, some offered sacrifices on that account.
Several letters also came from Caius; one of them to the senate, which
informed them of the death of Tiberius, and of his own entrance on the
government; another to Piso, the governor of the city, which told him
the same thing. He also gave order that Agrippa should be removed out
of the camp, and go to that house where he lived before he was put
in prison; so that he was now out of fear as to his own affairs; for
although he was still in custody, yet it was now with ease to his
own affairs. Now, as soon as Caius was come to Rome, and had brought
Tiberius's dead body with him, and had made a sumptuous funeral for
him, according to the laws of his country, he was much disposed to set
Agrippa at liberty that very day; but Antonia hindered him, not out of
any ill-will to the prisoner, but out of regard to decency in Caius,
lest that should make men believe that he received the death of Tiberius
with pleasure, when he loosed one whom he had bound immediately.
However, there did not many days pass ere he sent for him to his house,
and had him shaved, and made him change his raiment; after which he put
a diadem upon his head, and appointed him to be king of the tetrarchy of
Philip. He also gave him the tetrarchy of Lysanias, [27] and changed his
iron chain for a golden one of equal weight. He also sent Marullus to be
procurator of Judea.

11. Now, in the second year of the reign of Caius Caesar, Agrippa
desired leave to be given him to sail home,