Note 1021 — Chapter XXXVIII · ROD NOT EMPLOYED IN SPITE OF CLOSE INTERCOURSE WITH EGYPT— REASONS SUGGESTED FOR ABSENCE
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Herod seems, from notices in Josephus, to have been quite a sportsman, for he kept a regular stud (Ant., XVI. 10, s. 3), and hunted bears, stags, wild asses, etc., with a record bag of forty head in one day (ibid., XV. 7, s. 7; and B. J., I. 21, s. 13).