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When they had thus soon pacified him, as being their father, they
got clear of the present fear they were in. Yet did they see occasion for
sorrow in some time afterward; for they knew that Salome, as well as their
uncle Pheroras, were their enemies; who were both of them heavy and severe
persons, and especially Pheroras, who was a partner with Herod in all the
affairs of the kingdom, excepting his diadem. He had also a hundred talents
of his own revenue, and enjoyed the advantage of all the land beyond Jordan,
which he had received as a gift from his brother, who had asked of Caesar
to make him a tetrarch, as he was made accordingly. Herod had also given
him a wife out of the royal family, who was no other than his own wife's
sister, and after her death had solemnly espoused to him his own eldest
daughter, with a dowry of three hundred talents; but Pheroras refused to
consummate this royal marriage, out of his affection to a maidservant of
his. Upon which account Herod was very angry, and gave that daughter in
marriage to a brother's son of his, [Joseph,] who was slain afterward by
the Parthians; but in some time he laid aside his anger against Pheroras,
and pardoned him, as one not able to overcome his foolish passion for the
maid-servant.
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