c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.121

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.121

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.121

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

121And when their principal men endeavored to pacify them, and promised to endeavor to persuade Cureanus to avenge those that were killed, they would not hearken to them, but took their weapons, and entreated the assistance of Eleazar, the son of Dineus, a robber, who had many years made his abode in the mountains, with which assistance they plundered many villages of the Samaritans.