Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Antipater (son of Herod the Great)" in English language version.
Cum audisset inter pueros quos in Syria Herodes rex Iudaeorum intra bimatum iussit interfici filium quoque eius occisum, ait: Melius est Herodis porcum esse quam filium. transl. la – transl. But hearing these words, Herod, King of the Jews within the two years in length between
the boys whom they gave orders to have been killed in Syria and the son of his, too, had been
slain, and he said: It is better to be Herod's swine than his Son