c. AD 94

J. AJ 15.270

The Antiquities of the Jews 15.270

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

15.270

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

270for there were very great rewards for victory proposed, not only to those that performed their exercises naked, but to those that played the musicians also, and were called Thymelici; and he spared no pains to induce all persons, the most famous for such exercises, to come to this contest for victory.