c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.296

Against Apion 1.296

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.296

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

296Now, for Manetho, he describes these polluted persons as sent first to work in the quarries and says, that after that the city Avaris was given them for their habitation. As also he relates that it was not till after they had made war with the rest of the Egyptians that they invited the people of Jerusalem to come to their assistance;