c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.190

The Wars of the Jews 1.190

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.190

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

1904. Thus was Pelusium taken. But still, as they were marching on, those Egyptian Jews that inhabited the country called the country of Onias stopped them. Then did Antipater not only persuade them not to stop them, but to afford provisions for their army; on which account even the people about Memphis would not fight against them, but of their own accord joined Mithridates.