c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.173

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.173

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.173

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

173but that if their government be long continued to them; they are at last satiated with the spoils, as having gotten a vast deal, and so become at length less sharp in their pillaging; but that if successors are sent quickly, the poor subjects, who are exposed to them as a prey, will not be able to bear the new ones, while they shall not have the same time allowed them wherein their predecessors had filled themselves, and so grew more unconcerned about getting more; and this because they are removed before they have had time [for their oppressions].