c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.173

Against Apion 2.173

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.173

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

17318. But for our legislator, he very carefully joined these two methods of instruction together; for he neither left these practical exercises to go on without verbal instruction, nor did he permit the hearing of the law to proceed without the exercises for practice; but beginning immediately from the earliest infancy, and the appointment of every one’s diet, he left nothing of the very smallest consequence to be done at the pleasure and disposal of the person himself.