c. AD 94

J. AJ 19.195

The Antiquities of the Jews 19.195

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

19.195

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

195So when he was come into the palace, he found Cesonia, who was Caius’s wife, lying by her husband’s dead body, which also lay down on the ground, and destitute of all such things as the law allows to the dead, and all over herself besmeared with the blood of her husband’s wounds, and bewailing the great affliction she was under, her daughter lying by her also; and nothing else was heard in these her circumstances but her complaint of Caius, as if he had not regarded what she had often told him of beforehand;