c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.50

Against Apion 2.50

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.50

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

50for when these Alexandrians were making war with Cleopatra the queen, and were in danger of being utterly ruined, these Jews brought them to terms of agreement, and freed them from the miseries of a civil war. “But then (says Apion) Onias brought a small army afterward upon the city at the time when Thermus the Roman ambassador was there present.”