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When she had said this, she brought the box, which had a small quantity
of this potion in it: but the king let her alone, and transferred the tortures
to Antiphilus's mother and brother; who both confessed that Antiphilus
brought the box out of Egypt, and that they had received the potion from
a brother of his, who was a physician at Alexandria. Then did the ghosts
of Alexander and Aristobulus go round all the palace, and became the inquisitors
and discoverers of what could not otherwise have been found out and brought
such as were the freest from suspicion to be examined; whereby it was discovered
that Mariamne, the high priest's daughter, was conscious of this plot;
and her very brothers, when they were tortured, declared it so to be. Whereupon
the king avenged this insolent attempt of the mother upon her son, and
blotted Herod, whom he had by her, out of his treament, who had been before
named therein as successor to Antipater.
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1 ANTIPATER IS CONVICTED BY BATHYLLUS ; BUT HE STILL RETURNS FROM ROME WITHOUT KNOWING IT. HEROD BRINGS HIM TO HIS TRIAL.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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