c. AD 94

J. AJ 13.376

The Antiquities of the Jews 13.376

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

13.376

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

376where, besides his other ill success, the nation insulted him, and he fought against them for six years, and slew no fewer than fifty thousand of them. And when he desired that they would desist from their ill-will to him, they hated him so much the more, on account of what had already happened; and when he had asked them what he ought to do, they all cried out, that he ought to kill himself. They also sent to Demetrius Eucerus, and desired him to make a league of mutual defense with them.