c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.39

Against Apion 2.39

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.39

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

39And what occasion is there to speak of others, when those of us Jews that dwell at Antioch are named Antiochians, because Seleucus the founder of that city gave them the privileges belonging thereto? After the like manner do those Jews that inhabit Ephesus and the other cities of Ionia enjoy the same name with those that were originally born there, by the grant of the succeeding princes;