[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 11:6, 12:3] Herod, however, avenged himself upon Malichus.  And those who hitherto did not favor him now joined him because of his marriage into the family of Hyrcanus, for he had formerly married a wife from his own country of noble blood, Doris by name, who bore to him Antipater.  Now he planned to marry Mariamne, the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus and the grandson of Hyrcanus.

[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 12:4, 5] But when Caesar and Antony had slain Cassius near Philippi and Caesar had gone to Italy and Antony to Asia, the great men of the Jews came and accused Phasaelus and Herod that they held the government by force and that Hyrcanus had nothing more than an honorable name.  Herod appeared ready to answer this accusation, and having made Antony his friend by the large sums of money which he gave him, influenced him not to listen to the charges spoken against him by enemies.  After this a hundred of the principal men among the Jews came to Antony at Daphne near Antioch and accused Phasaelus and Herod.  But Massala opposed them and defended the brothers with the help of Hyrcanus.  When Antony had heard both sides, he asked Hyrcanus which party was best fitted to govern.  Hyrcanus replied that Herod and his party were the best fitted.  Therefore Antony appointed the brothers tetrarchs, and intrusted to them the rulership of Judea.

[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 13:1a, Jos.  Ant.  XIV, 13:10] Now two years after, when Barzaphanes, a Parthian governor, and Pacorus, the king’s son, had captured Syria, they were persuaded by the promise of a thousand talents and five hundred women to bring back Antigonus to his kingdom and to turn Hyrcanus out of it.  Thus Antigonus was brought back into Judea by the king of the Parthians, and received Hyrcanus and Phasaelus as prisoners.  Being afraid that Hyrcanus, who was under the guard of the Parthians, might have his kingdom restored to him by the multitude, Antigonus cut off his ears and thereby guarded against the possibility that the high priesthood would ever come to him again, inasmuch as he was maimed, and the law required that this dignity should belong to none but those who had all their members intact.  Phasaelus, perceiving that he was to be put to death, dashed his head against a great stone and thereby took away his own life.

[Sidenote:  Jos.  Jew.  War, I, 13:7, 8c, 14:1b, 2] Herod, however, went off by night, taking those nearest related to him.  As soon as the Parthians perceived it, they pursued after him, but when at every assault he had slain a great many of them, he came to the stronghold of Masada, and there he left eight hundred of his men to guard the women, and provisions sufficient for a siege; but he himself hastened to Petra in Arabia.  He was not able, however, to find any friendship among the Arabians, for their king sent to him and commanded him to turn back immediately from the country.  So when Herod