ce, was married to Herod, his
father's brother, and was sixteen years old; the other two, Mariamne and
Drusilla, were still virgins; the former was ten years old, and Drusilla
six. Now these his daughters were thus espoused by their father;
Marlatone to Julius Archclaus Epiphanes, the son of Antiochus, the son
of Chelcias; and Drusilla to the king of Commagena. But when it was
known that Agrippa was departed this life, the inhabitants of Cesarea
and of Sebaste forgot the kindnesses he had bestowed on them, and acted
the part of the bitterest enemies; for they cast such reproaches upon
the deceased as are not fit to be spoken of; and so many of them as were
then soldiers, which were a great number, went to his house, and hastily
carried off the statues [24] of this king's daughters, and all at once
carried them into the brothel-houses, and when they had set them on the
tops of those houses, they abused them to the utmost of their power,
and did such things to them as are too indecent to be related. They also
laid themselves down in public places, and celebrated general feastings,
with garlands on their heads, and with ointments and libations to
Charon, and drinking to one another for joy that the king was expired.
Nay, they were not only unmindful of Agrippa, who had extended his
liberality to them in abundance, but of his grandfather Herod also, who
had himself rebuilt their cities, and had raised them havens and temples
at vast expenses.

2. Now Agrippa, the son of the deceased, was at Rome, and brought up
with Claudius Caesar. And when Caesar was informed that Agrippa was
dead, and that the inhabitants of Sebaste and Cesarea had abused him, he
was sorry for the first news, and was displeased with the ingratitude
of those cities. He was therefore disposed to send Agrippa, junior,
away presently to succeed his father in the kingdom, and was willing to
confirm him in it by his oath. But those freed-men and friends of his,
who had the greatest authority with him, dissuaded him from it, and said
that it was a dangerous experiment to permit so large a kingdom to come
under the government of so very young a man, and one hardly yet arrived
at years of discretion, who would not be able to take sufficient care of
its administration; while the weight of a kingdom is heavy enough to
a grown man. So Caesar thought what they said to be reasonable.
Accordingly he sent Cuspins Fadus to be procurator of Judea, and of the
entire kingdo