c. AD 77

J. BJ 1.415

The Wars of the Jews 1.415

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

1.415

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

4158. He also built the other edifices, the amphitheater, and theater, and marketplace, in a manner agreeable to that denomination; and appointed games every fifth year, and called them, in like manner, Caesar’s Games; and he first himself proposed the largest prizes upon the hundred ninety-second olympiad; in which not only the victors themselves, but those that came next to them, and even those that came in the third place, were partakers of his royal bounty.