the rest of the
nation. He also made subject to him the following cities, viz. Strato's
Tower, and Sebaste, and Joppa, and Jerusalem; but as to the Grecian
cities, Gaza, and Gadara, and Hippos, he cut them off from the kingdom,
and added them to Syria. Now the revenue of the country that was given
to Archelaus was four hundred talents. Salome also, besides what the
king had left her in his testaments, was now made mistress of Jamnia,
and Ashdod, and Phasaelis. Caesar did moreover bestow upon her the royal
palace of Ascalon; by all which she got together a revenue of sixty
talents; but he put her house under the ethnarchy of Archelaus. And for
the rest of Herod's offspring, they received what was bequeathed to
them in his testaments; but, besides that, Caesar granted to Herod's two
virgin daughters five hundred thousand [drachmae] of silver, and
gave them in marriage to the sons of Pheroras: but after this family
distribution, he gave between them what had been bequeathed to him by
Herod, which was a thousand talents, reserving to himself only some
inconsiderable presents, in honor of the deceased.

CHAPTER 7.

The History Of The Spurious Alexander. Archelaus Is Banished
And Glaphyra Dies, After What Was To Happen To Both Of Them
Had Been Showed Them In Dreams.

1. In the meantime, there was a man, who was by birth a Jew, but brought
up at Sidon with one of the Roman freed-men, who falsely pretended,
on account of the resemblance of their countenances, that he was that
Alexander who was slain by Herod. This man came to Rome, in hopes of not
being detected. He had one who was his assistant, of his own nation, and
who knew all the affairs of the kingdom, and instructed him to say how
those that were sent to kill him and Aristobulus had pity upon them,
and stole them away, by putting bodies that were like theirs in their
places. This man deceived the Jews that were at Crete, and got a great
deal of money of them for traveling in splendor; and thence sailed to
Melos, where he was thought so certainly genuine, that he got a great
deal more money, and prevailed with those that had treated him to sail
along with him to Rome. So he landed at Dicearchia, [Puteoli,] and got
very large presents from the Jews who dwelt there, and was conducted by
his father's friends as if he were a king; nay, the resemblance in
his countenance procured him so much credit, that those who had seen
Alexander, and had known him v