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For these reasons Mariamne reproached Herod, and his sister and mother,
after a most contumelious manner, while he was dumb on account of his affection
for her; yet had the women great indignation at her, and raised a calumny
against her, that she was false to his bed; which thing they thought most
likely to move Herod to anger. They also contrived to have many other circumstances
believed, in order to make the thing more credible, and accused her of
having sent her picture into Egypt to Antony, and that her lust was so
extravagant, as to have thus showed herself, though she was absent, to
a man that ran mad after women, and to a man that had it in his power to
use violence to her. This charge fell like a thunderbolt upon Herod, and
put him into disorder; and that especially, because his love to her occasioned
him to be jealous, and because he considered with himself that Cleopatra
was a shrewd woman, and that on her account Lysanias the king was taken
off, as well as Malichus the Arabian; for his fear did not only extend
to the dissolving of his marriage, but to the danger of his life.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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