The Character of Herod the Great

Macrobius talks about it in a kind of garbled account, but macrobius is writing centuries later. Soi don't weigh that too heavily. In terms of herod's character, ye, he he killed a couple of his children who were falsely accused of trying to get the throne. He had his favourite wife strangled, who was falsely accused of committing adultery. And then later, on his death bed, but six days before he died, he found out the son that falsely had accused the others, that he really was plotting against him, and he had him killed. There'sa probably apocryphal saying attributed to the emperor augustus, better to be one

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