and brother of Simon who also held that office.* Matthias,* in the first year of the reign of Hyrcanus, had a son Matthias, surnamed Curtusa; who, in the ninth year of the reign of Alexandra,* [5] begot Joseph, and he, in the tenth year of the reign of Archelaus,* Matthias, to whom I was born in the year in which Gaius Caesar became Emperor.* I have three sons: Hyrcanus, the eldest, born in the fourth,* Justus in the seventh, and Agrippa in the ninth year of the reign of Vespasian Caesar. With such