prosperity; and he took the army
out of Ptolemais, and returned to Antioch; from whence he presently sent
an epistle to Caesar, and informed him of the irruption he had made into
Judea, and of the supplications of the nation; and that unless he had a
mind to lose both the country and the men in it, he must permit them
to keep their law, and must countermand his former injunction. Caius
answered that epistle in a violent-way, and threatened to have Petronius
put to death for his being so tardy in the execution of what he had
commanded. But it happened that those who brought Caius's epistle were
tossed by a storm, and were detained on the sea for three months,
while others that brought the news of Caius's death had a good voyage.
Accordingly, Petronins received the epistle concerning Caius seven and
twenty days before he received that which was against himself.

CHAPTER 11.

Concerning The Government Of Claudius, And The Reign Of
Agrippa. Concerning The Deaths Of Agrippa And Of Herod And
What Children They Both Left Behind Them.

1. Now when Caius had reigned three year's and eight months, and had
been slain by treachery, Claudius was hurried away by the armies that
were at Rome to take the government upon him; but the senate, upon the
reference of the consuls, Sentis Saturninns, and Pomponins Secundus,
gave orders to the three regiments of soldiers that staid with them to
keep the city quiet, and went up into the capitol in great numbers,
and resolved to oppose Claudius by force, on account of the barbarous
treatment they had met with from Caius; and they determined either
to settle the nation under an aristocracy, as they had of old been
governed, or at least to choose by vote such a one for emperor as might
be worthy of it.

2. Now it happened that at this time Agrippa sojourned at Rome, and that
both the senate called him to consult with them, and at the same time
Claudius sent for him out of the camp, that he might be serviceable to
him, as he should have occasion for his service. So he, perceiving that
Claudius was in effect made Caesar already, went to him, who sent him as
an ambassador to the senate, to let them know what his intentions were:
that, in the first place, it was without his seeking that he was hurried
away by the soldiers; moreover, that he thought it was not just to
desert those soldiers in such their zeal for him, and that if he should
do so, his own fortune would be in uncer