c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.403

The Wars of the Jews 1.403

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.403

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

4032. Yet did he not preserve their memory by particular buildings only, with their names given them, but his generosity went as far as entire cities; for when he had built a most beautiful wall round a country in Samaria, twenty furlongs long, and had brought six thousand inhabitants into it, and had allotted to it a most fruitful piece of land, and in the midst of this city, thus built, had erected a very large temple to Caesar, and had laid round about it a portion of sacred land of three furlongs and a half, he called the city Sebaste, from Sebastus, or Augustus, and settled the affairs of the city after a most regular manner.