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Herod the Great had two daughters by Mariamne, the [grand] daughter
of Hyrcanus; the one was Salampsio, who was married to Phasaelus, her first
cousin, who was himself the son of Phasaelus, Herod's brother, her father
making the match; the other was Cypros, who was herself married also to
her first cousin Antipater, the son of Salome, Herod's sister. Phasaelus
had five children by Salampsio; Antipater, Herod, and Alexander, and two
daughters, Alexandra and Cypros; which last Agrippa, the son of Aristobulus,
married; and Timius of Cyprus married Alexandra; he was a man of note,
but had by her no children. Agrippa had by Cypros two sons and three daughters,
which daughters were named Bernice, Mariarune, and Drusius; but the names
of the sons were Agrippa and Drusus, of which Drusus died before he came
to the years of puberty; but their father, Agrippa, was brought up with
his other brethren, Herod and Aristobulus, for these were also the sons
of the son of Herod the Great by Bernice; but Bernice was the daughter
of Costobarus and of Salome, who was Herod's sister. Aristobulus left these
infants when he was slain by his father, together with his brother Alexander,
as we have already related. But when they were arrived at years of puberty,
this Herod, the brother of Agrippa, married Mariamne, the daughter of Olympias,
who was the daughter of Herod the king, and of Joseph, the son of Joseph,
who was brother to Herod the king, and had by her a son, Aristobulus; but
Aristobulus, the third brother of Agrippa, married Jotape, the daughter
of Sampsigeramus, king of Emesa; they had a daughter who was deaf, whose
name also was Jotape; and these hitherto were the children of the male
line. But Herodias, their sister, was married to Herod [Philip], the son
of Herod the Great, who was born of Mariamne, the daughter of Simon the
high priest, who had a daughter, Salome; after whose birth Herodias took
upon her to confound the laws of our country, and divorced herself from
her husband while he was alive, and was married to Herod [Antipas], her
husband's brother by the father's side, he was tetrarch of Galilee; but
her daughter Salome was married to Philip, the son of Herod, and tetrarch
of Trachonitis; and as he died childless, Aristobulus, the son of Herod,
the brother of Agrippa, married her; they had three sons, Herod, Agrippa,
and Aristobulus; and this was the posterity of Phasaelus and Salampsio.
But the daughter of Antipater by Cypros was Cypros, whom Alexas Selcias,
the son of Alexas, married; they had a daughter, Cypros; but Herod and
Alexander, who, as we told you, were the brothers of Antipater, died childless.
As to Alexander, the son of Herod the king, who was slain by his father,
he had two sons, Alexander and Tigranes, by the daughter of Archelaus,
king of Cappadocia. Tigranes, who was king of Armenia, was accused at Rome,
and died childless; Alexander had ason of the same name with his brother
Tigranes, and was sent to take possession of the kingdom of Armenia by
Nero; he had a son, Alexander, who married Jotape,
the daughter of Antiochus, the king of Commagena; Vespasian made him king
of an island in Cilicia. But these descendants of Alexander, soon after
their birth, deserted the Jewish religion, and went over to that of the
Greeks. But for the rest of the daughters of Herod the king, it happened
that they died childless. And as these descendants of Herod, whom we have
enumerated, were in being at the same time that Agrippa the Great took
the kingdom, and I have now given an account of them, it now remains that
I relate the several hard fortunes which befell Agrippa, and how he got
clear of them, and was advanced to the greatest height of dignity and power.
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1 OF THE NAVIGATION OF KING AGRIPPA TO ROME, TO TIBERIUS CAESAR; AND NOW UPON HIS BEING ACCUSED BY HIS OWN FREED-MAN, HE WAS BOUND; HOW ALSO HE, WAS SET AT LIBERTY BY CAIUS, AFTER TIBERIUS'S DEATH AND WAS MADE KING OF THE TETRARCHY OF PHILIP.
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