This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
View text chunked by:
[313]
But still a greater misfortune came upon the young men; while the
calumnies against them were continually increased, and, as a man may say,
one would think it was every one's endeavor to lay some grievous thing
to their charge, which might appear to be for the king's preservation.
There were two guards of Herod's body, who were in great esteem for their
strength and tallness, Jucundus and Tyrannus; these men had been cast off
by Herod, who was displeased at them; these now used to ride along with
Alexander, and for their skill in their exercises were in great esteem
with him, and had some gold and other gifts bestowed on them. Now the king
having an immediate suspicion of those men, had them tortured, who endured
the torture courageously for a long time; but at last confessed that Alexander
would have persuaded them to kill Herod, when he was in pursuit of the
wild beasts, that it might be said he fell from his horse, and was run
through with his own spear, for that he had once such a misfortune formerly.
They also showed where there was money hidden in the stable under ground;
and these convicted the king's chief hunter, that he had given the young
men the royal hunting spears and weapons to Alexander's dependents, at
Alexander's command.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.