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So Caesar, after he had heard both sides, dissolved the assembly
for that time; but a few days afterward, he gave the one half of Herod's
kingdom to Archelaus, by the name of Ethnarch, and promised to make him
king also afterward, if he rendered himself worthy of that dignity. But
as to the other half, he divided it into two tetrarchies, and gave them
to two other sons of Herod, the one of them to Philip, and the other to
that Antipas who contested the kingdom with Archelaus. Under this last
was Perea and Galilee, with a revenue of two hundred talents; but Batanea,
and Trachonitis, and Auranitis, and certain parts of Zeno's house about
Jamnia, with a revenue of a hundred talents, were made subject to Philip;
while Idumea, and all Judea, and Samaria were parts of the ethnarchy of
Archelaus, although Samaria was eased of one quarter of its taxes, out
of regard to their not having revolted with the rest of the nation. He
also made subject to him the following cities, viz. Strato's Tower, and
Sebaste, and Joppa, and Jerusalem; but as to the Grecian cities, Gaza,
and Gadara, and Hippos, he cut them off from the kingdom, and added them
to Syria. Now the revenue of the country that was given to Archelaus was
four hundred talents. Salome also, besides what the king had left her in
his testaments, was now made mistress of Jamnia, and Ashdod, and Phasaelis.
Caesar did moreover bestow upon her the royal palace of Ascalon; by all
which she got together a revenue of sixty talents; but he put her house
under the ethnarchy of Archelaus. And for the rest of Herod's offspring,
they received what was bequeathed to them in his testaments; but, besides
that, Caesar granted to Herod's two virgin daughters five hundred thousand
[drachmae] of silver, and gave them in marriage to the sons of Pheroras:
but after this family distribution, he gave between them what had been
bequeathed to him by Herod, which was a thousand talents, reserving to
himself only some inconsiderable presents, in honor of the deceased.
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1 THE HISTORY OF THE SPURIOUS ALEXANDER. ARCHELAUS IS BANISHED AND GLAPHYRA DIES, AFTER WHAT WAS TO HAPPEN TO BOTH OF THEM HAD BEEN SHOWED THEM IN DREAMS.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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