c. AD 94

J. AJ 20.212

The Antiquities of the Jews 20.212

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Antiquities of the Jews

20.212

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

212he also gave the people a largess of corn, and distributed oil among them, and adorned the entire city with statues of his own donation, and with original images made by ancient hands; nay, he almost transferred all that was most ornamental in his own kingdom thither. This made him more than ordinarily hated by his subjects, because he took those things away that belonged to them to adorn a foreign city.