c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.236

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.236

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.236

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

236Now, as soon as Caius was come to Rome, and had brought Tiberius’s dead body with him, and had made a sumptuous funeral for him, according to the laws of his country, he was much disposed to set Agrippa at liberty that very day; but Antonia hindered him, not out of any ill-will to the prisoner, but out of regard to decency in Caius, lest that should make men believe that he received the death of Tiberius with pleasure, when he loosed one whom he had bound immediately.