ch.7.sect.9, Hardain has some pretense for saying that Josephus here contradicted himself.

But perhaps Herod thought he had sufficient authority to put a governor into Gaza, after he was made tetrarch or king, in times of war, before the city was entirely delivered into his hands by Augustus.
[32] This fort was first built, as it is supposed, by John Hyrcanus; see Prid.

at the year 107; and called "Baris," the Tower or Citadel.

It was afterwards rebuilt, with great improvements, by Herod, under the government of Antonius, and was named from him "the Tower of Antoni;" and about the time when Herod rebuilt the temple, he seems to have put his last hand to it.

See Antiq.