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Nay, Pheroras had been accused long before, while the queen [Mariamne]
was alive, as if he were in a plot to poison Herod; and there came then
so great a number of informers, that Herod himself, though he was an exceeding
lover of his brethren, was brought to believe what was said, and to be
afraid of it also. And when he had brought many of those that were under
suspicion to the torture, he came at last to Pheroras's own friends; none
of which did openly confess the crime, but they owned that he had made
preparation to take her whom he loved, and run away to the Parthians. Costobarus
also, the husband of Salome, to whom the king had given her in marriage,
after her former husband had been put to death for adultery, was instrumental
in bringing about this contrivance and flight of his. Nor did Salome escape
all calumny upon herself; for her brother Pheroras accused her that she
had made an agreement to marry Silleus, the procurator of Obodas, king
of Arabia, who was at bitter enmity with Herod; but when she was convicted
of this, and of all that Pheroras had accused her of, she obtained her
pardon. The king also pardoned Pheroras himself the crimes he had been
accused of.
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