c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.139

Against Apion 2.139

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.139

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

139Yet, if all men had followed the manners of the Egyptians, the world had certainly been made desolate as to mankind, but had been filled full of the wildest sort of brute beasts, which, because they suppose them to be gods, they carefully nourish.