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NOW Mariamne's sons were heirs to that hatred which had been borne
their mother; and when they considered the greatness of Herod's crime towards
her, they were suspicious of him as of an enemy of theirs; and this first
while they were educated at Rome, but still more when they were returned
to Judea. This temper of theirs increased upon them as they grew up to
be men; and when they were Come to an age fit for marriage, the one of
them married their aunt Salome's daughter, which Salome had been the accuser
of their mother; the other married the daughter of Archclaus, king of Cappadocia.
And now they used boldness in speaking, as well as bore hatred in their
minds. Now those that calumniated them took a handle from such their boldness,
and certain of them spake now more plainly to the king that there were
treacherous designs laid against him by both his sons; and he that was
son-in-law to Archelaus, relying upon his father-in-law, was preparing
to fly away, in order to accuse Herod before Caesar; and when Herod's head
had been long enough filled with these calumnies, he brought Antipater,
whom he had by Doris, into favor again, as a defense to him against his
other sons, and began all the ways he possibly could to prefer him before
them.
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