c. AD 94

J. AJ 17.215

The Antiquities of the Jews 17.215

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

17.215

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

215And as Archelaus was afraid lest some terrible thing should spring up by means of these men’s madness, he sent a regiment of armed men, and with them a captain of a thousand, to suppress the violent efforts of the seditious before the whole multitude should be infected with the like madness; and gave them this charge, that if they found any much more openly seditious than others, and more busy in tumultuous practices, they should bring them to him.