c. AD 94

J. AJ 16.350

The Antiquities of the Jews 16.350

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

16.350

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

350for I venture to affirm that when the forces of the Arabians came upon us, and one or two of Herod’s party fell, he then only defended himself, and there fell Nacebus their general, and in all about twenty-five others, and no more; whence Sylleus, by multiplying every single soldier to a hundred, he reckons the slain to have been two thousand five hundred.”