c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.245

The Wars of the Jews 1.245

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.245

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

2456. But when the ambassadors had indignation at this procedure, Antony took fifteen of them, and put them into custody, whom he was also going to kill presently, and the rest he drove away with disgrace; on which occasion a still greater tumult arose at Jerusalem; so they sent again a thousand ambassadors to Tyre, where Antony now abode, as he was marching to Jerusalem; upon these men who made a clamor he sent out the governor of Tyre, and ordered him to punish all that he could catch of them, and to settle those in the administration whom he had made tetrarchs.