c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.172

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.172

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.172

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

172that he permitted those governors who had been sent once to their government [to stay there a long while], out of regard to the subjects that were under them; for that all governors are naturally disposed to get as much as they can; and that those who are not to fix there, but to stay a short time, and that at an uncertainty when they shall be turned out, do the more severely hurry themselves on to fleece the people;