c. AD 94

J. AJ 13.417

The Antiquities of the Jews 13.417

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

13.417

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

417“Nay, indeed, the case is this, that they have been themselves the authors of their own calamities, who have permitted a woman who, against reason, was mad with ambition, to reign over them, when there were sons in the flower of their age fitter for it.” So Alexandra, not knowing what to do with any decency, committed the fortresses to them, all but Hyrcania, and Alexandrium, and Macherus, where her principal treasures were.