c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.118

The Wars of the Jews 1.118

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.118

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

118and besides this, upon Hyrcanus’s complaint to his mother, she compassionated his case, and put Aristobulus’s wife and sons under restraint in Antonia, which was a fortress that joined to the north part of the temple. It was, as I have already said, of old called the Citadel; but afterwards got the name of Antonia, when Antony was lord [of the East], just as the other cities, Sebaste and Agrippias, had their names changed, and these given them from Sebastus and Agrippa.