c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.142

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.142

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.142

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

1428. Hereupon Herod was so amazed at the prodigious wickedness of Antipater, that he was ready to have ordered him to be slain immediately, as a turbulent person in the most important concerns, and as one that had laid a plot not only against himself, but against his sister also, and even corrupted Caesar’s own domestics. Salome also provoked him to it, beating her breast, and bidding him kill her, if he could produce any credible testimony that she had acted in that manner.