c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.79

Against Apion 2.79

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.79

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

797. However, I cannot but admire those other authors who furnished this man with such his materials; I mean Posidonius and Apollonius [the son of] Molo, who while they accuse us for not worshipping the same gods whom others worship, they think themselves not guilty of impiety when they tell lies of us, and frame absurd and reproachful stories about our temple; whereas it is a most shameful thing for freemen to forge lies on any occasion, and much more so to forge them about our temple, which was so famous over all the world, and was preserved so sacred by us;