c. AD 94

J. AJ 18.242

The Antiquities of the Jews 18.242

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

18.242

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

242for she said that she could not bear to live any longer, while Agrippa, the son of that Aristobulus who was condemned to die by his father, one that came to her husband in such extreme poverty, that the necessaries of life were forced to be entirely supplied him day by day; and when he fled away from his creditors by sea, he now returned a king; while he was himself the son of a king, and while the near relation he bare to royal authority called upon him to gain the like dignity, he sat still, and was contented with a privater life.