c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.289

Against Apion 1.289

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.289

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

289and then goes on thus:—“The goddess Isis appeared to Amenophis in his sleep, and blamed him that her temple had been demolished in the war: but that Phritiphantes, the sacred scribe, said to him, that in case he would purge Egypt of the men that had pollutions upon them, he should be no longer troubled with such frightful apparitions.