carry Herod's ring to Caesar, and the settlements
he had made, sealed up, because Caesar was to be lord of all the
settlements he had made, and was to confirm his testament; and he
ordered that the dispositions he had made were to be kept as they were
in his former testament.

9. So there was an acclamation made to Archelaus, to congratulate him
upon his advancement; and the soldiers, with the multitude, went round
about in troops, and promised him their good-will, and besides, prayed
God to bless his government. After this, they betook themselves to
prepare for the king's funeral; and Archelaus omitted nothing of
magnificence therein, but brought out all the royal ornaments to augment
the pomp of the deceased. There was a bier all of gold, embroidered with
precious stones, and a purple bed of various contexture, with the dead
body upon it, covered with purple; and a diadem was put upon his head,
and a crown of gold above it, and a sceptre in his right hand; and near
to the bier were Herod's sons, and a multitude of his kindred; next to
which came his guards, and the regiment of Thracians, the Germans also
and Gauls, all accounted as if they were going to war; but the rest of
the army went foremost, armed, and following their captains and officers
in a regular manner; after whom five hundred of his domestic servants
and freed-men followed, with sweet spices in their hands: and the body
was carried two hundred furlongs, to Herodium, where he had given order
to be buried. And this shall suffice for the conclusion of the life of
Herod.

WAR BOOK 1 FOOTNOTES

[1] I see little difference in the several accounts in Josephus about
the Egyptian temple Onion, of which large complaints are made by his
commentators. Onias, it seems, hoped to have made it very like that at
Jerusalem, and of the same dimensions; and so he appears to have really
done, as far as he was able and thought proper. Of this temple, see
Antiq. B. XIII. ch. 3. sect. 1--3, and Of the War, B. VII. ch. 10. sect.
8.

[2] Why this John, the son of Simon, the high priest and governor of
the Jews, was called Hyrcanus, Josephus no where informs us; nor is he
called other than John at the end of the First Book of the Maccabees.
However, Sixtus Seuensis, when he gives us an epitome of the Greek
version of the book here abridged by Josephus, or of the Chronicles of
this John Hyrcanus, then extant, assures us that he was called Hyrcanus
from his conquest of one of