c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.295

Against Apion 1.295

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.295

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

295Manetho says that the person who foreshowed this purgation of Egypt to the king, was Amenophis, but this man says it was Phritiphantes. As to the numbers of the multitude that were expelled, they agree exceedingly well, the former reckoning them eighty thousand, and the latter about two hundred and fifty thousand!