BERENICE, or Beronice, grand-daughter of the preceding, and daughter of Agrippa I. king of Judæa, acquired a discreditable celebrity by her amours. She was betrothed to one Marcus, but he died before the marriage was consummated. Soon after she married her uncle Herod, who, at the desire of Agrippa, his brother and father-in-law, was created king of Chalcis by the Emperor Claudius. On the death of her husband, A.D. 48, she lived for a considerable time with her brother Agrippa, with whom it was rumoured that she committed incest. To avoid this scandal, 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, and returned to Agrippa, with whom she was still living when St Paul appeared before him at Cæsarea, A.D. 62. She seconded her brother in his attempt to prevent the desolation of Judæa, and at the risk of her own life interceded with Florus to spare her miserable countrymen. This artful woman drew Titus into her snares; but the murmurs of the Roman people opposed an obstacle to their contemplated marriage, and she became the concubine of the emperor.