[The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem CHAPTER 31 3/6
And perhaps they were the ghosts of those brethren of his that had been murdered that stopped the mouths of those that intended to have told him.
He then wrote from Rome, and informed his [friends] that he would soon come to them, and how he was dismissed with honor by Caesar. 3.
Now the king, being desirous to get this plotter against him into his hands, and being also afraid lest he should some way come to the knowledge how his affairs stood, and be upon his guard, he dissembled his anger in his epistle to him, as in other points he wrote kindly to him, and desired him to make haste, because if he came quickly, he would then lay aside the complaints he had against his mother; for Antipater was not ignorant that his mother had been expelled out of the palace. However, he had before received a letter, which contained an account of the death of Pheroras, at Tarentum, [46] and made great lamentations at it; for which some commended him, as being for his own uncle; though probably this confusion arose on account of his having thereby failed in his plot [on his father's life]; and his tears were more for the loss of him that was to have been subservient therein, than for [an uncle] Pheroras: moreover, a sort of fear came upon him as to his designs, lest the poison should have been discovered.
However, when he was in Cilicia, he received the forementioned epistle from his father, and made great haste accordingly.
But when he had sailed to Celenderis, a suspicion came into his mind relating to his mother's misfortunes; as if his soul foreboded some mischief to itself.
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