c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.36

The Wars of the Jews 1.36

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.36

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

363. Accordingly Matthias, the son of Asamoneus, one of the priests who lived in a village called Modin, armed himself, together with his own family, which had five sons of his in it, and slew Bacchides with daggers; and thereupon, out of the fear of the many garrisons [of the enemy], he fled to the mountains;