. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. died hohad his son. Antipatcr, strangled. But, altliough cruel, hi^government was vigorous and brilliant. He was highlyesteemed by Augustus. There was peace in Judaea; eoni-merco and irulustry prospered; literature and art flour-ished. His buildings were especially magniftcent ; he-founded Ca;?arca, rebuilt Samaria under the namo of Se-baste, and adorned Jerusalem with numerous splendidstructures. The Jews, however, found iu his governmenta leaning towards Home, which humiliated them, and ageneral te
. Johnson's new universal cyclopaedia : a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge. died hohad his son. Antipatcr, strangled. But, altliough cruel, hi^government was vigorous and brilliant. He was highlyesteemed by Augustus. There was peace in Judaea; eoni-merco and irulustry prospered; literature and art flour-ished. His buildings were especially magniftcent ; he-founded Ca;?arca, rebuilt Samaria under the namo of Se-baste, and adorned Jerusalem with numerous splendidstructures. The Jews, however, found iu his governmenta leaning towards Home, which humiliated them, and ageneral tendency towards Roman civilization, which theyhated; ami tho latter part of his life was much troubled byconspiracies and riots. He was ton times married, and diedbetween Mar. 13 and Apr. f), a few weeks after the birthof Christ, of a horrible disease, the same as killed Sullaand Philip II. of Spain.—His son, Hkrod Antipas, byhi wife Malthaoe, a Samaritan, was by his will appointedfrarch of Galilee and Pera*a. He divorced his firstwife, and marrieil Hcrodias, the wife of his half-brother. Philip, and when John the Baptist remonstrated againstthis incestuous connection, he had him put to a visit to Jerusalem for the purpose of celebratingtho passover, thrist appeared beiore liini, sent by Piiatoas a former resident of his tctrarchate. In 42 A. d. hemade a journey to Rome in order to obtain the royal dig-nity, but, through the intrigues of Herod Agrippa, ho wasexiled by Caligula, and d. in Lyons.—Hi:uon AcjniiMA I.,son of Aristobulus, brother to Hcrodias, and grandson ofHerod tho Great, was educated in Rome, and receivedfrom Caligula the tetrarehate of Judiea with the title ofking, and after the banishment of Herod Antipas, Clau-dius gave him all the old provinces of Judu>a. He wasmucli liked by the Jews, especially for his vigorous meas-ures against Christians; he liad the apostle St. James the(Jroater beheaded and St. Peter thrown into prison. Hed. early (44
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