Herōdes

, surnamed the Great and As cal on it a , followed the interest of Brutus and Ca ius, and afterwards that of Antony. He was made king of Judæa by means of Antony, and after the battle of Actium he was continued in his power by his flattery and submi ion to August us. He rendered himself odious by his cruelty, and as he knew that the day of his death would become a day of mirth and festivity, he ordered the most illustrious of his subjects to be confined and murdered the very moment that he expired, that every eye in the kingdom might seem to shed tears at the death of Herod. He died in the 70th year of his age, after a reign of 40 years. Joseph us. ――Antipas, a son of Herod the Great, governor of Galileæ, . ――Agrippa, a Jew intimate with the emperor Caligula, . ――This name was common to many of the Jews. Joseph us. ――Atticus. See: Atticus .