From the Banishment of Archelus to the Departure From Babylon - Flavius Josephus

of fear as to his own affairs; for although he was still in custody, yet it was
now with ease to his own affairs. Now, as soon as Caius was come to Rome,
and had brought Tiberius's dead body with him, and had made a sumptuous
funeral for him, according to the laws of his country, he was much disposed
to set Agrippa at liberty that very day; but Antonia hindered him, not out of
any ill-will to the prisoner, but out of regard to decency in Caius, lest that
should make men believe that he received the death of Tiberius with
pleasure, when he loosed one whom he had bound immediately. However,
there did not many days pass ere he sent for him to his house, and had him
shaved, and made him change his raiment; after which he put a diadem upon
his head, and appointed him to be king of the tetrarchy of Philip. He also
gave him the tetrarchy of Lysanias, (10) and changed his iron chain for a
golden one of equal weight. He also sent Marullus to be procurator of Judea.
11. Now, in the second year of the reign of Caius Caesar, Agrippa
desired leave to be given him to sail home, and settle the affairs of his
government; and he promised to return again, when he had put the rest in
order, as it ought to be put. So, upon the emperor's permission, he came into
his own country, and appeared to them all unexpectedly as asking, and
thereby demonstrated to the men that saw him the power of fortune, when
they compared his former poverty with his present happy affluence; so some
called him a happy man, and others could not well believe that things were
so much changed with him for the better.
Footnotes:
1. Spanheim observes, that we have here an instance of the Attic quantity
of use-money, which was the eighth part of the original sum, or 12 per
cent., for such is the proportion of 2500 to 20,000.
2. The governor of the Jews there.
3. Tiberius, junior of Germanicus.
4. This high commendation of Antonia for marrying but once, given here,
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