This feeble man having become desperately enamored of her, promised to marry her, and to repudiate his first wife, daughter of Hareth, king of Petra, and emir of the neighboring tribes of Perea.

The Arabian princess, receiving a hint of this design, resolved to fly.

Concealing her intention, she pretended that she wished to make a journey to Machero, in her father's territory, and caused herself to be conducted thither by the officers of Antipas.[5] [Footnote 1: Jos., _Ant._, XVIII.v.

4.] [Footnote 2: Matthew (chap.xiv.3, in the Greek text) and Mark (chap.
vi.

17) have it that this was Philip; but this is certainly an inadvertency (see Jos., _Ant._, XVIII.v.1, 4).