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[42]
And now Herod seemed to have healed the divisions in his family;
yet was he not without suspicion, as is frequently the case, of people
seeming to be reconciled to one another, but thought that, as Alexandra
had already made attempts tending to innovations, so did he fear that she
would go on therein, if she found a fit opportunity for so doing; so he
gave a command that she should dwell in the palace, and meddle with no
public affairs. Her guards also were so careful, that nothing she did in
private life every day was concealed. All these hardships put her out of
patience, by little and little and she began to hate Herod; for as she
had the pride of a woman to the utmost degree, she had great indignation
at this suspicious guard that was about her, as desirous rather to undergo
any thing that could befall her, than to be deprived of her liberty of
speech, and, under the notion of an honorary guard, to live in a state
of slavery and terror. She therefore sent to Cleopatra, and made a long
complaint of the circumstances she was in, and entreated her to do her
utmost for her assistance. Cleopatra hereupon advised her to take her son
with her, and come away immediately to her into Egypt. This advice pleased
her; and she had this contrivance for getting away: She got two coffins
made, as if they were to carry away two dead bodies and put herself into
one, and her son into the other and gave orders to such of her servants
as knew of her intentions to carry them away in the night time. Now their
road was to be thence to the sea-side and there was a ship ready to carry
them into Egypt. Now Aesop, one of her servants, happened to fall upon
Sabion, one of her friends, and spake of this matter to him, as thinking
he had known of it before. When Sabion knew this, (who had formerly been
an enemy of Herod, and been esteemed one of those that laid snares for
and gave the poison to [his father] Antipater,) he expected that this discovery
would change Herod's hatred into kindness; so he told the king of this
private stratagem of Alexandra: whereupon be suffered her to proceed to
the execution of her project, and caught her in the very fact; but still
he passed by her offense; and though he had a great mind to do it, he durst
not inflict any thing that was severe upon her, for he knew that Cleopatra
would not bear that he should have her accused, on account of her hatred
to him; but made a show as if it were rather the generosity of his soul,
and his great moderation, that made him forgive them. However, he fully
proposed to himself to put this young man out of the way, by one means
or other; but he thought he might in probability be better concealed in
doing it, if he did it not presently, nor immediately after what had lately
happened.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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