c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.135

Against Apion 2.135

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.135

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

13513. “But,” says Apion, “we Jews have not had any wonderful men amongst us, not any inventors of arts, nor any eminent for wisdom.” He then enumerates Socrates, and Zeno, and Cleanthes, and some others of the same sort; and, after all, he adds himself to them, which is the most wonderful thing of all that he says, and pronounces Alexandria to be happy, because it hath such a citizen as he is in it;