BERENICE, grand-daughter of the preceding, and daughter of Agrippa I. king of Judæa, acquired an unchaste celebrity on account of her amours. She was betrothed to one Marcus, but he died before the marriage was consummated. Soon after she married his uncle Herod, who, at the desire of Agrippa, his brother and father-in-law, was created king of Chalcis by the emperor Claudius. She lost her husband in the eighth year of the emperor Claudius; and in her widowhood it was rumoured that she committed incest with her brother Agrippa. To put a stop to this report, she offered herself in marriage to Polemon, king of Cilicia, provided he would change his religion. He accepted her offer, was circumcised, and married her. But Berenice soon left him to follow her own ways; and he abandoned Judaism to return to his former religion. She stood always well with her brother Agrippa, and seconded him in his design of preventing the desolation of Judæa. This artful intrigante got Titus into her snares; but the murmurs of the Roman people opposing an obstacle to the marriage she had contemplated, there remained nothing for her but the title of mistress or concubine of the emperor. During the seventeenth century the French stage resounded with the amours of Titus and Berenice.