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With this advice Pheroras complied, and putting himself into such
a habit as might most move compassion, he came with black cloth upon his
body, and tears in his eyes, and threw himself down at Herod's feet, and
begged his pardon for what he had done, and confessed that he had acted
very wickedly, and was guilty of every thing that he had been accused of,
and lamented that disorder of his mind, and distraction which his love
to a woman, he said, had brought him to. So when Archelaus had brought
Pheroras to accuse and bear witness against himself, he then made an excuse
for him, and mitigated Herod's anger towards him, and this by using certain
domestical examples; for that when he had suffered much greater mischiefs
from a brother of his own, he prefered the obligations of nature before
the passion of revenge; because it is in kingdoms as it is in gross bodies,
where some member or other is ever swelled by the body's weight, in which
case it is not proper to cut off such member, but to heal it by a gentle
method of cure.
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