CHAPTER 8. How Ten Men Of The Citizens [Of Jerusalem] Made A Conspiracy
Against Herod, For The Foreign Practices He Had Introduced, Which Was A
Transgression Of The Laws Of Their Country. Concerning The Building Of
Sebaste And Cæsarea, And Other Edifices Of Herod.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Famine That Happened In Judea And Syria; And
How Herod, After He Had Married Another Wife, Rebuilt Cæsarea, And Other
Grecian Cities.
CHAPTER 10. How Herod Sent His Sons To Rome; How Also He Was Accused By
Zenodorus And The Gadarens, But Was Cleared Of What They Accused Him Of
And Withal Gained To Himself The Good-Will Of Cæsar. Concerning The
Pharisees, The Essens And Manahem.
CHAPTER 11. How Herod Rebuilt The Temple And Raised It Higher And Made
It More Magnificent Than It Was Before; As Also Concerning That Tower
Which He Called Antonia.
FOOTNOTES:
BOOK XVI. Containing The Interval Of Twelve Years.—From The Finishing Of
The Temple By Herod To The Death Of Alexander And Aristobulus.
CHAPTER 1. A Law Of Herod's About, Thieves. Salome And Pheroras
Calumniate Alexander And Aristobulus, Upon Their Return From Rome For
Whom Yet Herod Provides Wives.
CHAPTER 2. How Herod Twice Sailed To Agrippa; And How Upon The Complaint
In Ionia Against The Greeks Agrippa Confirmed The Laws To Them.
CHAPTER 3. How Great Disturbances Arose In Herods Family On His
Preferring Antipater His Eldest Son Before The Rest, Till Alexander Took
That Injury Very Heinously.
CHAPTER 4. How During Antipater's Abode At Rome, Herod Brought Alexander
And Aristobulus Before Cæsar And Accused Them. Alexander's Defense Of
Himself Before Cæsar And Reconciliation To His Father.
CHAPTER 5. How Herod Celebrated The Games That Were To Return Every
Fifth Year Upon The Building Of Cæsarea; And How He Built And Adorned
Many Other Places After A Magnificent Manner; And Did Many Other Actions
Gloriously
CHAPTER 6. An Embassage In Cyrene And Asia To Cæsar, Concerning The
Complaints They Had To Make Against The Greeks; With Copies Of The
Epistles Which Cæsar And Agrippa Wrote To The Cities For Them.
CHAPTER 7. How, Upon Herod's Going Down Into David's Sepulcher, The
Sedition In His Family Greatly Increased.
CHAPTER 8. How Herod Took Up Alexander And Bound Him; Whom Yet Archelaus
King Of Cappadocia Reconciled To His Father Herod Again.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Revolt Of The Trachonites; How Sylleus Accused
Herod Before Cæsar; And How Herod, When Cæsar Was Angry At Him, Resolved
To Send Nicolaus To Rome.
CHAPTER 10. How Eurycles Falsely Accused Herod's Sons; And How Their
Father Bound Them, And Wrote To Cæsar About Them. Of Sylleus And How He
Was Accused By Nicolaus.
CHAPTER 11. How Herod, By Permission From Cæsar Accused His Sons Before
An Assembly Of Judges At Berytus; And What Tero Suffered For Using A
Boundless And Military Liberty Of Speech. Concerning Also The Death Of
The Young Men And Their Burial At
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