ch.5.sect.

8; and 1 Macc.

12:7.
[41] See the preceding note.
[42] Dean Aldrich takes notice here, that these nine wives of Herod were alive at the same time; and that if the celebrated Mariamne, who was now dead, be reckoned, those wives were in all ten.

Yet it is remarkable that he had no more than fifteen children by them all.
[43] To prevent confusion, it may not be amiss, with Dean Aldrich, to distinguish between four Josephs in the history of Herod.1.

Joseph, Herod's uncle, and the [second] husband of his sister Salome, slain by Herod, on account of Mariamne.
2.