Possible Clues:

• Infanticidal king
• Had he a stick for royalty?
• Governor associated with tyrannical power
• Massacre-of-Innocents king
• Thus might 27 across do wrong and commit infanticide
• Friend of Mark Antony
• Christ was born in the reign of . . . . . the Great (5)
• Infamous king of the Bible
• Cattle, say, gathering round ancient king
• New Testament ruler